'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1860-61' [‎7r] (9/164)

JUDICIAL.
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of the Police, will not take effect in this Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. till specially extended to it
by the Governor General of India in Council, by an order to be published in
the Bombay Gazette.
Government would have wished to have included in this Report an expres
sion of opinion as to the advantages or otherwise attending the introduction of
the Civil Procedure Code, Act VIII. of 1859, but the operation of the Act has
not been sufficiently long continued to admit of its effects in shortening the
average duration of Suits and in diminishing the cost of litigation being
ascertained.
Several subjects calling for Legislation have been under consideration
during the year; but it seems hardly necessary to do more than notice briefly a
few of the more important.
Js£.— The Bill introduced by Sir Charles Jackson, for the Dissolution of
Marriages of Christian Converts, which led to the inquiry as to the extent to
which the converts in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. were actually affected by the
existing Law. The authorities consulted, while admitting the necessity for
legislation, were generally of opinion that the time had not arrived for moving
in the matter; the converts in this Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. being too few to be perceptibly
affected by the present state of the Law.
2nd.—The Draft of a Code of Laws for the Par sees, prepared by the
Parsees of Bombay. The Legislative Council being desirous of obtaining an
expression of the general feelings of the Parsees on the several points embraced
in this Code, printed copies of it were distributed at all important places in this
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. where Parsees reside, ihe replies were forwarded to Calcutta in
March 1861.
“drd .— The establishment of Insolvent Courts in the Mofussil, for which
purpose a Draft Act is in course of preparation by the Judges of the Sudder
Adawlut.
Mh .— The defective state of the Law in respect of the Crime of Adultery.
The remarkable increase in the crime of Adultery under this Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. atti acted
attention so far back as 1853, and induced the Sudder Adawlut to institute
special inquiry as to the extent of the evil, and its influence on crimes of a
violent nature. A mass of valuable information, thus collected, came before
Government during the year under review, and gave rise to a lengthened
correspondence as to the necessity for the adoption of remedial measures of a
more effectual character than distinguishes those which now exist. Ihe subject
is still engaging attention.
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