enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of...

   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 .

3. Elijah Impey - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Impey

   In 1773 the Regulating Act reformed the government of East India Company-ruled Bengal, establishing the Bengal supreme council and a supreme court with Warren Hastings as the first governor-general. Impey was appointed the first chief justice of the new supreme court at Calcutta in March 1774 and knighted later that month.

4. Calcutta High Court - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_High_Court

   The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by Letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was brought into existence as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William by the Letters Patent dated 14 May 1862, [3] issued under the High Courts Act, 1861 ...

5. Regulating Act 1773 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulating_Act_1773

   The Act named four additional men to serve with the Governor-General on the Supreme Council of Bengal: Lt-Gen John Clavering, George Monson, Richard Barwell, and Philip Francis. [3] A Supreme Court was established at Fort William at Calcutta (1774). British judges were to be sent to India to administer the British legal system that was used there.

6. William Jones (philologist) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)

   William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π.The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, [4] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. [5]

7. Sadr Diwani Adalat - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadr_Diwani_Adalat

   The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat (Urdu: صدر دیوانی عدالت, Bengali: সদর দেওয়ানি আদালত) (English: Sudder Dewanny Adawlut) was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772. [1] It was reformed in 1780 and again in 1793 by the British Parliament. [2]

8. Sheriff of Kolkata - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Kolkata

   The Calcutta Madness [citation needed] was established by a Royal Charter issued by King George III of Great Britain on 26 March 1774 which created the Supreme Court at Fort William in Calcutta. The charter stipulated that the sheriff would be appointed by the Governor-General in Council from a list of three residents recommended by the Supreme ...

9. Barnes Peacock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Peacock

   Sir Barnes Peacock (7 January 1805 – 3 December 1890) was an English barrister and judge who served as the first Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in India and the final Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William. Alongside Lord Macaulay, he is credited with authoring the Indian Penal Code.