My Law Study: Syllabus : LC 0501 Legal and Constitutional History

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Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Syllabus : LC 0501 Legal and Constitutional History

Module 01 Early Administration of Justice in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta :

1. European Settlement in India
2. The East India Company : Development of authority
3. Organisational setup of the English Company’s Factories or settlements in India
4. Madras Settlement and Administration of Justice
5. Administration of Justice in Bombay
6. Administration of Justice in Calcutta

Module 02 Mayor’s Courts and the Courts of Requests :

1. Early Mayor’s Court in Madras
2. Provisions of the Charter of 1726
3. Consequences of the Charter of 1726
4. Critical estimate of the working of the Mayor’s Court from 1726 to 1753
5. The Charter of 1753: Reforms introduced
6. Criticism of the Charter
7. Abolition of the Mayor’s Court
8. Appraisal of the Mayor’s Court under the Charter of 1726 and 1753
9. The Courts of Request (Small Cause Courts

Module 03 Adalat System in Bengal :

1. Courts in Bengal under the Mughals
2. Dual Government in Bengal and its consequences
3. The Company as Diwan
4. Warren Hasting’s Plan of 1772
5. Defect of the Plan
6. New Plan of 1774
7. Reorganisation of Adalats in 1780
8. Defects of the reorganization Plan
9. Reforms of 1781: Initiative of Impey and Warren Hastings
10. Reforms in the Administration of Criminal Justice

Module 04 The Regulating Act of 1773 :

1.   Circumstances prior to the Act of 1773
2.   Salient features of the Regulating Act, 1773
3.   Legislative power under the Act, 1773
4.   Charter of 1774 and the Supreme Court of Clacutta
5.   Critical estimate of the Provisions of the Regulating Act, 1773 and the Charter of 1774
6.   Trial of Raja Nand Kumar (1775)
7.   Kamaluddin Case (1775)
8.   Patna Case (1777-1779)
9.   Cossijurah Case (1779-178)
10. Salient features of the Settlement Act, 1781
11. Major defects of the Settlement Act, 1781
12. Supreme Court at Calcutta
13. Supreme Court at Madras and Bombay
14. Laws administered in the Supreme Court

Module 05 Judicial Measures of Cornwallis :

1. Company’s Government before Cornwallis
2. Important provisions of the Pitt’s Act, 1784
3. Judicial reform of Cornwallis
       a) Judicial Plan of 1787
       b) Re-organisation of the Criminal Judicature
       c) Scheme of Criminal Judicature, 1790
4. Judicial Plan of 1793
5. Appraisal of the System of 1793

Module 06 Establishment of High Courts :

1. The Indian High Courts Act, 1861
2. Letters patent establishing High Courts
3. The Indian High Courts Act, 1865 and of 1911
4. The Government of India Act, 1915
5. The Government of India Act, 1935
6. High Courts established during 1947 to 1950

Module 07 Privy Council - Highest Court of Appeal :

1. The Origin of Privy Council
2. Appeal to the Privy Council (1726-1860)
3. Appeal to the Privy Council (1861-1949)
4. Precedential value of the Privy Council decisions

Module 08 Federal Court of India :

1. Foundation of the Federal Court
2. Jurisdiction of the Federal Court
       a) Original Jurisdiction
       b) Appellate Jurisdiction
       c) Advisory Jurisdiction
3. Authority of law laid down by Federal Court
4. Abolition of Federal Court

Module 09 Evolution of Law through Legislation and Judicial Decisions in Colonial Period :

1. Process of Codification in India -

                            (a) The Charter Act of 1833,
                           (b) The First Law Commission,
                            (c) The Second Law Commission,
                           (d) The Third Law Commission, and
                           (e) The Fourth Law Commission

2. Land Laws

The Land Revenue Settlement, 1793
The Bengal Rent Act (Act X of 1859)

3. Legislation and Hindu Society -

The Sati Regulation Act, 1829
The Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850

Case 1. Charlotte Abraham v. Francis Abraham, (1861-1864) 9 MIA 199 (PC)
Case 2. Miter Sen Singh v. Maqbul Hasan Khan, (1929-1930) 57 IA 313

4. The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856 -

Case 1. Bhagwandeen Doobey v. Myna Baee, (1866-1867) 11 MIA 487
Case 2. Debi Mangal Prasad Singh v. Mahadeo Prasad Singh, (1911-1912) 39 IA 121
Case 3. Venayeck Arundrow v. Luxumeebaee, (1861-1864) 9 MIA 520

5. Restitution of Conjugal Rights -

Muslim Law and restitution of conjugal rights

Case 1. Mooshee Buzloor Ruheem v. Shumsoonnissa Begum, (1866-1867) 11 IA 551

Parsi Law and retitution of conjugal rights

Case 1. Ardaseer Cursetjee v. Perozeboye, (1854-1857) 6 MIA 348

Hindu Law and restitution of conjugal rights

Case1. Dadaji Bhikaji v. Rukmabai, ILA (1885-1886) 10 Bom 301

6. Justice Equity and Good Conscience -

Case 1. Manzur Hasan v. Muhammad Zaman, (1924- 1925) 52 IA 61
Case 2. Nawab Khwaja Muhammad Khan v. Nawab Husaini Begam, (19091910) 37 IA 152

Case 3. Gopeekrist Gosain v. Gungapersaud Gosain, (1854-1857) 6 MIA 53

Case 4. Gokul Chand v. Hukum Chand Nath Mal, (1920-1921) 48 IA 162

Module 10 Constitutional History :

1. Morley-Minto Reforms and the Indian Council Act, 1909
2. Montagu-Chelmsford Report and the Government of India Act, 1919
           a. Main features of the system introduced by the Act of 1919
           b. Shortcomings of the Act of 1919
3. The Simon Commission Report
4. The Nehru Report, 1928
5. Communal Award and Poona Pact
6. The Civil Disobedience Movement
7. The Government of India Act, 1935
           a. Main features of the Government of India Act, 1935
           b. Opposition to the Government of India Act, 1935
           c. Defects of the Government of India Act, 1935