Appeals, 1899-1952.

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Appeals, 1899-1952.

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This collection contains some of the last appeals made to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from lower Indian court orders and judgments, before abolition of the Committee's jurisdiction in the country in 1949. The decisions rendered are written in advisory form. Besides decisions of the Committee, the materials in the collection take the form of briefs, records of proceedings, and exhibit books. The Indian cases in the collection begin in 1897 and end in 1949. Those materials in the collection for the years 1948-1952 mainly involve appeals from various courts in the colonies including the High Court of Australia, the High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (in prize), the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, the Court of the Judge of Appeal in the State of Brunei, the Supreme Court of the Bahama Islands, the Court of Appeal of Malta, the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Bermuda, and the Supreme Court of Cyprus.

14 paige boxes.

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