This Court followed the dictum of Buckley, L.J. in the case of West vs Gwynne.(1) In the aforesaid case Buckley, L.J. while construing an amendment in the Act by which the contract was governed observed as follows: "The Act of 1881 thus expressed that in the case of leases made either before or after the commencement of the Act a covenant not to assign without licence should be enforceable just as before. .This section is to be read as if it were contained in the Act of 1881, and is dealing with a subject matter mentioned in the Act of 1881, and as to which there is in that Act a provision that the enactment shall apply to leases made either before or after commencement of the Act." Hardy, M.R. in a concurring judgment while construing second amendment in section 14 of the Conveyancing Act pointed out thus: "In the First place, the language of the section is perfectly general, "in all leases," and there is nothing in the section itself to confine it to leases subsequent to the Act.