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.ngraft the principles of the permanent settlement on the fiscal usages of Ben.
a large proportion of the first enactments being consequently retained in the Bei
code, a reference to the Regulations for Bengal has been substituted for a rep]
wherever it could be so arranged. *
The Oude code was originally framed with a view t^ a permanent settlei
of the revenue as in Bengal and Benares, but the relinquishment of that design/
announced by Regulation IX. of 1812. The tenures of the Oude provinces- ass^
fating with those of' Benares, rather than with those of Bengal, the revt
enactments exhibit a corresponding analogy in their provisions. The Regulat!
for this province will be found to incorporate the modifications which had
introduced by the various enactments passed in the course of the preceding years;]
that, but for the declared limit to its operation, the Oude code might be considered
be a consolidation of the laws of the first ten years of the system. Under these circi
stances a considerable reduction of the bulk of the work has been effected in the 0!
branch, by the substitution of references for repetitions, on the principles stated in
" NOTICE " prefixed to the Regulations of 1803,—with what success the task has
performed, can only be determined by those for whose use the Work is prepared. \1
To facilitate reference generally, and to assist the public officer in tracing the success!
modifications of whatever topic he may require to investigate, numerous marginal
other notes are appended, which direct the inquirer forward from the earliest rule, throi
successive changes or additions, to the latest provision on the subject under examinati]
f this design should, in any particular instances, be found not to have been perfe(
executed, it may be hoped that the difficulty of the task will excuse what no pains In
been spared to avoid.
In the course of the sixty years of legislation which these volumes embrace, gi
and fundamental changes have been introduced, and scarcely one subject, howe]
extensive or limited, has escaped amendment or alteration. The original
of 1793 contemplated an entire separation of the judicial functions, both civil
riminal, from the duties of the revenue department. The office of zillah magistr!
vas coupled with that of the civil judge, whose jurisdiction was unlimited as to
mount for which suits might be instituted in his court. The Provincial Courts!
tppeal and Circuit were, in their civil capacity, the court of first appeal from the ziln
n their criminal jurisdiction they held sessions for the trial of prisoners commit]
the magistrates. The Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut were the tribunals
it resort in India, in civil and criminal issues. A jurisdiction of small extent only
en to native commissioners.
Under the system as it now exists, the office of magistrate is severed from
of civil judge, and either separately held or coupled with that of collector,
hose revenue establishments are made available for police purposes. The Pro-
pcial Courts have been abolished: their civil jurisdiction in original suits is exercised
.ngraft the principles of the permanent settlement on the fiscal usages of Ben.
a large proportion of the first enactments being consequently retained in the Bei
code, a reference to the Regulations for Bengal has been substituted for a rep]
wherever it could be so arranged. *
The Oude code was originally framed with a view t^ a permanent settlei
of the revenue as in Bengal and Benares, but the relinquishment of that design/
announced by Regulation IX. of 1812. The tenures of the Oude provinces- ass^
fating with those of' Benares, rather than with those of Bengal, the revt
enactments exhibit a corresponding analogy in their provisions. The Regulat!
for this province will be found to incorporate the modifications which had
introduced by the various enactments passed in the course of the preceding years;]
that, but for the declared limit to its operation, the Oude code might be considered
be a consolidation of the laws of the first ten years of the system. Under these circi
stances a considerable reduction of the bulk of the work has been effected in the 0!
branch, by the substitution of references for repetitions, on the principles stated in
" NOTICE " prefixed to the Regulations of 1803,—with what success the task has
performed, can only be determined by those for whose use the Work is prepared. \1
To facilitate reference generally, and to assist the public officer in tracing the success!
modifications of whatever topic he may require to investigate, numerous marginal
other notes are appended, which direct the inquirer forward from the earliest rule, throi
successive changes or additions, to the latest provision on the subject under examinati]
f this design should, in any particular instances, be found not to have been perfe(
executed, it may be hoped that the difficulty of the task will excuse what no pains In
been spared to avoid.
In the course of the sixty years of legislation which these volumes embrace, gi
and fundamental changes have been introduced, and scarcely one subject, howe]
extensive or limited, has escaped amendment or alteration. The original
of 1793 contemplated an entire separation of the judicial functions, both civil
riminal, from the duties of the revenue department. The office of zillah magistr!
vas coupled with that of the civil judge, whose jurisdiction was unlimited as to
mount for which suits might be instituted in his court. The Provincial Courts!
tppeal and Circuit were, in their civil capacity, the court of first appeal from the ziln
n their criminal jurisdiction they held sessions for the trial of prisoners commit]
the magistrates. The Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut were the tribunals
it resort in India, in civil and criminal issues. A jurisdiction of small extent only
en to native commissioners.
Under the system as it now exists, the office of magistrate is severed from
of civil judge, and either separately held or coupled with that of collector,
hose revenue establishments are made available for police purposes. The Pro-
pcial Courts have been abolished: their civil jurisdiction in original suits is exercised