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Tagore Law Lectures. The History and Constitution of the Courts and Legislative Authorities in India

1899

in 1698 remaining as the foundation of the privileges of the united Company, under which the Court of Directors was constituted and the General Court of Proprietors was vested with the chief authority and control over the affairs of the Company. [...] Sovereignty and the right of ad- ministering civil and criminal justice were vested in the Mogul Emperor, who- se government of the provinces of Bengal consisted of two parts : the Dewanny or collection of the revenues and the administration ofthe principal branches of the department of civil justice, and the Nizamut or the mili- tary branch of the government, with the superintendence of the crimi [...] The chief was the prohibition of the private trade of the servants of the Company, and the sub- stitution of a liberal system of remuneration. [...] 23 requisite that our royal descendants, the Viziers, the bestowers of dignity, the Omrahs high in rank, the great officers, the Muttaseddees of the Dewanny, the manager of . the business of the Sultanut, the Jaghirdars and Croories, as well the future as the present using their constant endeavours for the establishment of this our royal command, leave the said office in poSsession of the said Com [...] of six years, the latter duty was as a heavy and unproductive LECTURE burden left in the hands of the Nabob ; the criminal part belonging to the Nazim or military governor ; the civil, to the Dewan or fiscal governor. * The result was that for a time the course of justice was suspended, the tribunals being Without authority against the masters of the country.
law
Pages
233
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Peface
i-xi Herbert Cowell view
Lecture I. Early History: the Grant of the Dewanny
1-23 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture II. Early History: the Regulating Act
24-41 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture III. Early History : the Settlement of 1781
42-59 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture IV. The Legislative Councils
60-72 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture V. The Legislative Councils—(Continued)
73-88 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture VI. Later History: the Presidency Town System
89-103 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture VII. Later History: the Provincial Civil Courts
104-126 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture VIII. Later History—The Provincial Criminal Courts
127-143 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture IX. The Privy Council
144-157 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture X. The Superior Courts
158-171 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture XI. The Inferior Civil Courts
172-186 Herbert Cowell view
Lecture XII. The Inferior Criminal Courts and Police
187-202 Herbert Cowell view
Index
203-214 Herbert Cowell view
Backmatter
1-8 Herbert Cowell view

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