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The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act 1773.It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcutta was established by the Indian High Courts Act 1861.
The East India Company Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3. c. 63) (also known as the Regulating Act 1773) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company's rule in India (Bengal). [1] The act did not prove to be a long-term solution to concerns over the company's affairs.
The Madhouses Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain , which set out a legal framework for regulating "madhouses" ( insane asylums ).
An Act for explaining and altering an Act, made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend, and reduce into One Act of Parliament, the general Laws now in being for regulating of Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England, and for other Purposes;" [ae] so far as the same ...
An Act for extending the Provisions of Three Acts made in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of His present Majesty's Reign, with respect to bringing Prize Goods into this Kingdom, to Prizes taken from the States General of the United Provinces; for declaring what Goods shall be deemed Military or Ship Stores; for regulating the ...
An Act for the better Regulation of Lying in Hospitals, and other Places appropriated for the charitable Reception of pregnant Women; and also to provide for the Settlement of Bastard Children born in such Hospitals and Places. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62))
Long title: An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls; and for the more effectually preventing mischiefs by fire within the cities of London and Westminster, and the liberties thereof, and other the parishes, precincts, and places, within the weekly bills of mortality, the parishes of Saint Mary-le-bon, Paddington, Saint Pancras, and Saint Luke at Chelsea, in ...
An Act to amend an Act made in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Payment of the Duty on Foreign Corn imported, and of the Bounty on British Corn exported." [u] (Repealed by Importation and Exportation Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 87))