The Charter of 1600 and the Company’s early judicial powers; the Mayor’s Courts; the Regulating Act 1773 and the Supreme Court at Calcutta; the Charter Acts of 1833 and 1853; and the Indian High Courts Act 1861. Dates and sequence matter in this paper more than in any other — each is given as the instrument itself states it.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.