Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

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SUDDER AMEENS, AND THEIR COURTS. ,
How removable for misconduct ...
How liable to be sued or prosecuted ..
How the plaint is to be prepared and registered.
Suits, in what order to be tried .
Not to coniine or harass witnesses.
Under what sanction evidence to be taken.
"What questions may not be put to witnesses..'..
Rules respecting admission of exhibits .
Decree, how to be prepared and tendered .
Appeal to zillah judge.'..
Zillah judge may call up cases from court of...
On vacancy, the ziliah judge to nominate successor .
Sunnuds to be granted to .
Where to hold cutcherries .
The law of the party to be administered .
What rules for moonsiffs apply to sudder ameens.
To try suits in person...
What vakeels shall act in Court of...
In cases not specially provided for, to follow rules of Zillah Courts.
What appeals may be referred to, and how they are to be tried and recorded
Zillah judge may employ thum in certain special duties .
Fees of abolished, salary substituted .
Howto return institution fee on razeenama being filed.,.
Pauper suits and appeals, how to be referred to.
Office of, open to natives„,of every class pnd religion—number and selection )
of, to be settled by Governor-General in Council .j
Law officers eligible, but not to be ex-ofllcio.
Jurisdiction of, extended to one thousand rupees .
To issue their own process..
How to try suits.....
Decrees of, how to be executed.
What reports to furnish.
Ministerial officers of, how punishable .
Proceedings against, for misconduct or incapacity.
Decree of zillah judge final in appeals from .
Suits, formerly referable to registers, to be referred to.
Process of, how to be served .
' To have nazirs—their powers...
How to execute their own decrees, and how to procure committal in 1
execution.I
To have cognizance of suits to set aside summary decrees of collector for 1
land rents. J
May be stationed away from zillah station...
What suits may be instituted in their courts when stationed away from )
Zillah Court.j
No one incapable of being, by reason of birth or descent.
British-born and their descendants amenable as others for acts done as 1
sudder ameens.J
Indigo contract cases may be referred to .
No one exempt from jurisdiction of, by reason of birth or descent.
Suits for la-kbiraj may be referred to.
Officers in their own courts to be appointed by.
Cases in which they or their dependants are interested, how to be dealt)
with.j
May demand security for defendants and attach their property—may)
' realize fines imposed by them, subject to appeal to zillah judge _-_j
Decrees in appeals from, passed by judge or principal sudder ameen, how 1
to be executed.j
In what language to write decrees and orders .
Suits within competence of, to be ordinarily instituted in their own courts, 1
with reservation of certain powers to zillah judge .j
Ldcal jurisdiction of, over moonsiffs to be settled by zillah judge .
Summary appeal from, lies to zillah judge...
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1814.
XXIII. ix.
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— Ixxiv.
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lxxv.
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1824.
XIII. ii.
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1831.
V. xiii.
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— xiv.
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— xviii.
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— xxii.
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— xxiii.
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— xxvi. 3, 4.
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— xxviii. 1.
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— xxix. 1.
1832.
VII. V.
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— v. 5.
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— vii.
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- X.
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— xvii.
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— xvii.
1836.
VIII. i.
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— ii.
X. V.
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1837.
XXV. iii.
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— xii.
1838.
XXVII.
1843.
VI. iii. iv.
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— V.
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XII.
1844.
IX. i. ii.
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— iii.
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