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Description
The book contains short, co-ordinated, integrated and coherent account of the important phases of the development of legal institutions in India. It also contains various chapters on modern judicial system, from privy council to Supreme Court, High Courts, Development of Law, Personal Laws, Codification, Law Reform, Law Reporting and Legal Profession, Legal Education, Development of Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Development of Civil Law, etc, with reference to Case Law and Exhaustive commentary
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Contents
I. Introductory
II. Early Charters and Surat Factory
III. Administration of Justice in Madras : 1639 - 1726
IV. Administration of Justice in Bombay : 1668 - 1726
V. Administration of Justice at Calcutta : 1690 - 1726
VI. Mayors' Courts
VII. Beginning of the Adalat System
VIII. Supreme Court at Calcutta
IX. Supreme Courts at Bombay and Madras
X. Re-Organisation of the Adalat System
XI. Judicial Measures of Cornwallis
XII. Progress of the Adalat System: Sir John Shore
XIII. Progress of the Adalat System: Wellesley-Amherst (1798-1827)
XIV. Criminal Judicature after Cornwallis
XV. Adalat System in Bengal: Bentinck and after
XVI. Judicial Systems Beyond Bengal
XVII. Racial Discrimination in the Judicial System
XVIII. Present Judicial System
XIX. High Courts
XX. From Privy Council to Supreme Court
XXI. Development of Criminal Law: 1772-1860
XXII. Development of Civil Law: Presidency Towns
XXIII. Development of Civil Law: Mofussil
XXIV. Codification of Law (1833-1882)
XXV. Some Select Codes
XXVI. Legislatures in India: 1861-1950
XXVII. Law Reform
XXVIII. Personal Laws of Hindus and Mohammedans
XXIX. India Wins Independence
XXX. Law, Rule of Law & Constitutional Developments
XXXI. Law Reporting in India
XXXII. Growth of Legal Profession
XXXIII. Legal Education
Subject-Index
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Author Details
M.P. Jain, LL.M. (Del.) .S.D. (Yale)
Professor of Law, University of Malaya, (formerly Professor of Law, Delhi University and Banaras Hindu University)
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