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..... es a separate "Journal" section. Until recently, there used to be sections also for the Federal Court and for the Privy Council. Except for the "Journal" section, each section contains verbatim reports of important decisions of the Courts concerned-the report being preceded by "head notes" summarising the important points of law decided in the case. In the report itself, portions considered important by the editors are side-lined, with a view apparently to drawing the reader's special attention. At the end of the year a subscriber, who has preserved all the twelve monthly parts, finds it possible to get the reports of decisions of each Court bound in a separate volume, with a continuous paging arrange- ment. The volumes thus prepared can be .....

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..... and partly whether the publication is devoted almost wholly to one theme. If the publication is intended for a specified period, to be brought out in a specified number of parts, and if its theme, broadly speaking, is a single one, it is not a periodical- though issued in parts at periodic intervals. If, on the other hand, the publication is likely to continue indefinitely or for an unspecified period -as far as the publisher or the subscriber can see-and if its theme is varied, it would be a periodical, whether it deals with matters pertain- ing to a single branch of human knowledge like law, or whether it deals with matters relating to more than one branch of human know- ledge. As for the first of the arguments, it is immaterial, in my vi .....

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..... ds, such as "periodical", we cannot lightly discard the dictionary meaning, where it has been given without circumlocution and without the employment of technical or even more difficult words. Lastly, in stating that "law journals are not periodicals", it seems to me that the learned Commissioner has used rather extreme language and perhaps unintentionally. What he appears to have had in mind is a publication mostly containing verbatim reports of decisions of Courts and not a publication like the "Law Quarterly Review" of England published by Messrs. Stevens Sons, which, even according to the definition accepted by the learned Commissioner, it would be difficult to hold as not being a periodical. For the reasons given above, I hold th .....

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