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The Calcutta Law Journal. September 16th 1933

1933

For the next six or seven years following the assumption of the Dewany we do not find any notable activity on the part of the Company's servants.for stabilising the administration of justice in the country excepting the appointment of a number of Supervisors over the native judicial officers and the exchange of a pertain amount of correspondence with the Directors at /Tome3Cri. [...] the year 178o the position as to the applicability of the native law remained the same as before On the assumption of the reins of his new office Sir Elijah Impey who might be regarded as the First Chief Justice of Bengal set to the work of wholesale reformation of the jadici d system of the country and the first work of importance that he did in that diretion was to prepare his famous th [...] was to ascertain the powers and the jurisdiction of the mafusil Courts and to explain and clear up the rules and orders regulating the procedure of Courts and to apprise the litigants of the same so that they might have greater confidence in the regular and proper working of the Courts and might look to the right quarter on the right occasion for the redress of their grievances. [...] So with the close of the 18th Century the position was this: (I) The indigenous system of Mahomedan Law was kept in tact suject to the question of any change regarding the discontinuance of summary procedure and the introduction of an elaborate system of judicial proceedings as implied in the term suits ; (2) the British Indian Courts administered this indigenous law ; (3) the Kazi lost his [...] Some of these Regulations deal with the constitution of Courts an I theappoint rnent of lodal commissioners for the trial of certain class of suits for the convenience of the inhabitants of the distant parts of the country which had no facility of coMmunicatim with the district heaquarters.
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20
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India
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sarf.120108
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The Calcutta Law Journal. September 16th 1933
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