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Legal History
Max. Marks = 100
Theory = 80 Continuous Assessment = 20
1st Semester Paper-I
Time Duration 3 Hours

Note : The subject includes a comprehensive and up to date study of various aspects of Legal History. The question paper shall be of 80 marks, spread over the whole syllabus comprising of three sections. Section A (very short answer type questions in about 10-20 words) shall have 10 questions, two questions from each unit carrying 2 marks each. Section B (short answer type questions in about 200-250 words) shall have 5 questions, one question from each unit carrying 6 marks each. All questions from sections A and B have to be attempted. Section C (long answer type questions in about 400-500 words) shall have 5 question, one from each unit carrying 10 marks each. Any three questions out of 5 have to be attempted from this section.

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Unit-I :
1. Administration of justice in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta
1.1. Emergence of the East India Company : development of authority under charters
1.2. Trading body to a territorial power : subsequent Charters
1.3. Administration of justice in Madras from 1639 to 1726
1.4. Administration of justice in Bombay 1668-1726
1.5. Administration of justice in Calcutta 1619-1726
2. The Mayors Court
2.1. Genesis of the Charter of 1726
2.2. Provisions of the Charter
2.3. Working of Judicial System
2.4. Charter of 1753
2.5. Defects of Judicial Systems

Unit-2 :
1. Adalat System
1.1. Grant of Diwani
1.2. Execution Diwani functions
1.3. Judicial Plan of 1772
1.4. Defects of the plan
1.5. New Plan of 1774
1.6. Reorganization of adalats in 1780
1.7. Reforms of 1781
1.8. The first civil code
1.9. Reforms in the administrations of Criminal Justice.

Unit-3 :
1. The Regulating Act 1773
1.1. Charter of 1774 and the Supreme Court of Calcutta
1.2. Some land mark cases
1.2.1. Trial of Raj Nandkumar (1775) :
1.2.2. The Patna case (1777-79)
1.2.3. The Cossijurah case (1779-80)
1.3. Act of settlement 1781
1.4. Major defects of Act of Settlement
1.5. Supreme Courts at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
1.6. Law and administration in the Supreme Court.

Unit-4 :
1. Process of Codification in India.
1.1. The Charter Act of 1833.
1.2. The First Law Commission.
1.3. The Second Law Commission.
1.4. The Third Law Commission.
1.5. The Fourth Law Commission.

Unit-5 :
1. Establishment of the High Courts
1.1. The Indian High Court Act 1861
2. The Federal Court of India
2.1. Foundation of the Federal Court
2.2. Jurisdiction
2.3. Authority of law
2.4. Expansion of jurisdiction
2.5. Abolition of the Federal Court

Recommended Readings :
Courtney Illbert, Government of India (1962)
Courtney Illbert, The Mechanics of Law making (1914)
M.P. Jain, Constitutional Law of India (1987) Tripathi, Bombay
M.P. Jain Outlines of Legal History 2006 ed. Wadhwa Nagpur
M.Rama Jois, legal and constitutional History of India 1600-1936 (1936)
Rankin. G.C. Background to Indian Law (1946)
V.D. Kulshreshtha’s Landmarks in Indian Legal History (1992), Eastern Book Company Lucknow.
Eric Stakes, the English Utilitarian and India (1992) OxfordDelhi.
Mittal J.K. legal & Constitutional History of India.