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The Rules and Orders of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal

1920

The Governor and the 5 Senior of the Council were appointed Justices of the Peace with the same or the like powers as Justices of the Peace constituted by any Comission or Letters Patent in England; with power to hold Quarter Sessions of the Peace; and they were constituted a Court of Record in the nature of a Court of Oyer and Jeri/liner and Gaol Delivery for the trial of all offences (high t [...] That report detailed the state o 1' the country judictures throughout the province of Bengal as they subsisted under the ancient constitution of the country or as they had been affected or altered by the Company; and the state of judicature existing in the settlement of Calcutta and in the factories and districts depending upon it partly derived from the constitution of the country and part [...] 11 & 12.) " But perhaps the most important part of the Act and the one which most completely reversed the policy and intention of the Act of 1773 was the recognition by Parliment of the Civil and Provincial Courts existing indepenently of the Supreme Courts; and of the Governor General and Council or some Committee thereof as the Chief Appellate Court of the country and the -vesting the Co [...] George and the town of Madras and the limits thereof and the Factories subordinate thereto and the territories subject to or dependent upon the Goverment of Madras; and for the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay within the town and island of Bombay and the limits thereof and the Factories subordinate thereto and the territorie3 subject to or dependent upon the Coverifiment of Bombay [...] In the first instance there was a difficulty with regard to the powers Which the Justices of the Courts were to possess in the provinces as conservators of the peace.(') Again the Supreme Court at Bombay was prohibited by the 30th setion of its Charter from interfering in any matter cocerning the revenue even within the town of Bombay which was in direct contradiction to the 53rd Geo.
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Pages
977
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144097
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-lvii unknown view
Stat. 13 Geo. 3 Cap. 63
1-14 unknown view
Charter Establishing the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal
15-50 By Writ of Privy Seal, Cocks view
Stat. 21 Geo.3 Cap. 70
51-60 unknown view
Stat. 24 and 25 Vict. Cap. 104
61-68 unknown view
Abstract of Letters Patent for the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal
69-74 unknown view
28 and 29 Vict. Cap. 15
75-76 unknown view
Proclamation No. 4366 November 22nd 1865
77-78 E.C. Bayley view
Letters Patent for the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal
79-118 C. Romilly view
Foreign Department Notifications
119-120 A.H. Mcmahon view
Government of India (Consolidating) Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5 Ch. 61.) Part Ix
121-126 unknown view
Notification Calcutta the 22nd March 1912 Proclamation
127-128 unknown view
Letters Patent of the High Court of Judicature at Patna
129-146 unknown view
Letters Patent Amending the Letters Patent Constituting the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal
147-150 unknown view
The Rules of the High Court Original Side
151-770 unknown view
Index
1-149 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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