After an exhaustive discussion, which we need not repeat, the Court concluded at p. 26 : "Our answer to the second question is that counsel in India, whether Barristers, Advocates, or pleaders, have inherent powers, both to compromise claims, and also to refer disputes in Court to arbitration, without the authority or consent of the client, unless their powers in this behalf have been expressly countermanded, and this, whether the law requires a written authority to 'act ' or 'plead ' or not." (emphasis, ours) The legal deduction is contained in these emphatic words : "Brush unrealities aside and what do we get but a contract ? How much more is that the case in those parts of India where no solicitor intervenes and counsel and client meet face to face ? How much more when there is an actual instrument of engagement or a power of attorney ? How much more when the law requires writing ?" (p. 24) 346 "The Privy Council tells us that there is inherent in the position of counsel an implicit authority to do all that is ex pedient, proper and necessary for the conduct of the suit and the settlement of the dispute." (p. 25) "Turning next to 0.3, R. 4, consider again the case in which a pleader is appointed simply to 'act ' without any attempt to set forth the scope of his acting.