The learned Chief Justice said: "Prior to the Constitution when there were no fundamental rights, section 299(2) of the Government of India Act, 1935, which corresponds to article 31 had (1) ; (2) ; 319 been construed by the Federal Court in Kunwar Lal Singh vs The Central Provinces and in the other cases referred to in Rajah of Bobbili vs The State of Madras and it was held by the Federal Court that the word ,;acquisition ' occurring in section 299 had the limited meaning of actual transference of ownership and not the wide meaning of deprivation of any kind that has been given by this Court in Subodh Gopal Bose 's case ; to that word acquisition appearing in article 31(2) in the light of the other provisions of the Constitution." During the years when the Government of India Act, 1935, was in operation the Privy Council had no occasion to pronounce upon the meaning of section 299(2), but we might, however, usefully refer to the recent decision of the House of Lords in Belfast Corporation vs O. D. Cars Ltd. (1) where the I louse had to consider the import of the expression 'take any property ' occurring in a similar context in the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (X & XI George V, Ch. 67), section 5(1) where the relevant words were: "In the exercise of their power to make laws neither. . the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall make a law so as to either directly or indirectly. . . take any property without compensation.