Legal and Constitutional History
Jamia Millia Islamia · LL.B. Semester 3
Unit I — DEVELOPMENT OF COURTS & JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS FROM 1600 TO 1781
India at the Dawn of British Arrival: English East India Company, Foundation, Constitution and Growth till 1726-Administration of Justice in Presidency Towns (1600-1726) and Development of Court and Institutions under the East India Company. · Establishment of Crown Courts in India: The Mayor’s Courts and Courts of Request in Presidency Towns-Beginning of Adalat System-Warren Hastings Plan of 1772, Reforms under Plan of 1774 and Reorganization in 1780- Regulating Act of 1773 · Salient Features of Supreme Court at Calcutta: Composition-Powers- Functions-Working-Landmarks Cases: Trial of Raja Nand Kumar (1775)-Case of Kamaluddin (1775)-The Patna Case (1779)-The Cossijurah Case (1779-80)
- Administration of Justice in the presidency Towns and Development of courts under East India Company (1600–1773)
- Period from 1600–1726, Establishment of Mayor's Court (1726)
- Changes introduced by the Charter of 1753, Warren Hastings Plan of 1772, Reforms
- Regulating Act of 1773: Provisions of the Act, Establishment of Supreme Court at
Unit II — DEVELOPMENT OF COURTS & JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS SINCE 1781
Act of Settlement 1781: Supreme Courts at Madras and Bombay- Role of Cornwallis in Judicial Reforms: Judicial Plans of 1787, 1790 and 1793-Progress of Adalat System under Sir John Shore, Lord Walleseley, Lord Amherest and Lord William Bentick · History of Indian High Courts under Act of 1861, 1865, 1911 & Govt. of India Act, 1915 & 1935 · Judicial Committee of Privy Council as a Court of Appeal and its Jurisdiction to Hear Appeals from Indian Decisions-Abolition of the Jurisdiction-Federal Court- Modern Judicial System
- Settlement Act of 1781
- Judicial Reforms of Lord Cornwallis — Judicial Plan of 1787, Judicial Plan of 1790, Judicial Plan of 1793, Progress of Adalat System under Sir John Shore
- Conflict Arising out of the Dual Judicial System & Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- Conflict Arising out of the Dual Judicial System
- Indian High Court Act1861, High Court under GOI Act 1915, High Court under GOI Act 1935
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- Appeals to Privy Council between 1726–1860, Appeals to Privy Council between 1861–1949
Unit III — DEVELOPMENT OF LAW
Racial Discrimination in Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice · Introduction of English Law in the Presidencies and Mufussils · Development of Criminal Law-Development of Civil Law-Development of Personal Law during British Periods
Unit IV — CIVIL REBELLIONS, RISE & GROWTH OF INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Revolt of 1857: Civil Rebellious and Peasant Revolts with Special Reference to Indigo-Revolt, Deccan Riots and Mappila Uprising-Early Nationalists and Militant Nationalists-Revolutionary Group-Terrorists · Passing of the Indian Council Act, 1881, 1892 and the Govt. of India Act of 1909, 1919 & 1935 · Emergence of Gandhi in Indian Politics and Techniques of Mass Mobilization: Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit Indian Movement- Transfer of Power and Indian Independence Act, 1947
Unit V — HISTORICAL GROWTH OF LEGAL PROFESSION & LAW- REPORTING
Codification of Indian Laws and the Law Commissions: The Charter Act of 1833-First Law Commission- Charter Act of 1853-Second, Third & Fourth Law Commission · Growth of Legal Profession in India: Legal Practitioners Act, 1853, The High Court of 1861, The Legal Practitioners Act 1879, Report of the Indian Bar Committee, 1923, The Indian Bar Council Act, 1926 and The Advocates Act, 1961 · History of Law Reporting in India
- History of Legal Profession
- Legal profession in Pre-British India
- Law Practitioners in the Mayor's Court1726
- Legal Profession under Charter of 1774
- Legal Profession in the Company's Court and Legal Practitioners Act, 1853
- High Court Act, 1861
- Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 and All India Bar Committee of 1951
- Introduction to Advocates Act, 1961
- Law Reporting in India