Appeals to Privy Council between 1726–1860, Appeals to Privy Council between 1861–1949

The right to appeal to London did not arrive in one piece. It started small, in 1726, as a privilege attached to a brand-new Mayor's Court and available only above a certain value. It ended, in 1949, as a formal statutory jurisdiction abolished by an Act of a newly independent Constituent Assembly. Between those two dates, the route an Indian appeal actually travelled changed almost every time this paper's earlier topics introduced a new court.

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Appeals to the Privy Council from India ran in two distinct phases — from the Mayor's Courts and Supreme Courts before 1861, and from the unified High Courts and, after 1935, the Federal Court from 1861 to 1949 — ending only when the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act, 1949 closed the connection.

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