Privy Council Judgments On Appeals From India

Excerpt from Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeals From India, Vol. 3 The decisions of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, in cases heard on appeal from the Courts of British India, are at present in a great measure unknown to and beyond the reach of a great majority of the Judges of our Courts. From the year 1836 regular reports of the decisions on Indian Appeals have been published by Mr. Moore. But the earlier volumes of this series are not to be procured without great difficulty (the first volume alone, I believe, not being procurable for even Rs. While the high price of all of them is an obstacle to their wide circulation. In 1855 the Privy Council first began to print their Indian. Judgments, and I have been furnished with the whole series of these printed judgments from that time to the presents I have also been furnished with the earlier judgments commencing from 1831 to 1834, as published in what is known as the Folio Edition of the Privy Council Cases, a still more inaccessible work than Moore's Reports. From these materials I propose to reprint the whole of the judgments in a single volume, with carefully prepared marginal notes, and a copious Index, so that, in a convenient form for reference, the judgments of the highest tribunal will be brought within reach of every local Court. By the Folio Edition of the Privy Council Cases above referred to, were meant the printed cases in appeals which were bound up together with the judgments. A complete set of these was kept up in the Library of the late Sudder Court at Calcutta. I may also here mention that previous to Mr. Mofl's Reports, the earlier judgments of the Privy Council from 1829 to 1836 were reported by Mr. Knapp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.