1 MEMORANDUM SHOWING THE SYSTEM OF JU-
2 DICATURE: IN MYSORE.
3 . 1. W8EN the Governor General of India resolved that the Territories
4 of the Rajah of Mysore should be governed until further orders by a
5 sole Commissioner and four European Superintendents in the Districts,
6 the system and establishments for the administration of justice which
7 then existed being considered inadequate to the wants of the Country,
8 an order for the establishment of Courts of Justice, with a Draft of
9 Rules for their guidance, was issued on the 27th of October 1834,
10 2. These Rules may be said to form the basis of the present system,
11 and together with several subsequent modifications, which, from time to
12 time, have been deemed necessary, form the system of judicial adminis-
13 tration described below.
14 COURTS.
15 3. The Courts at present in existence, for the administration of
16 ; Civil and Criminal Justice, within the Mysore Terri-
17 capes ber end tory, may be classed under six heads or grades—lst,
18 The Talook or Amils’ Courts, in number 85; 2nd,
19 The Mysore and Bangalore Town Moonsiffs’ Courts, in number 2; 3rd,
20 The Principal Sudder Moonsiffs’ Courts, in number 8; 4th, The Euro-
21 pean Superintendents’ Courts; 5th, The Huzoor Adawlut, a Native
22 Court attached to the Commissioner’s Office, which has three Judges ;
23 6th, The Court of the Commissioner.
24 CIVIL JUSTICE.
25 Courts of original 4, Of these there are two clases—1st, The Amils’
26 er: Courts; 2nd, The Town Moonsiffs’.
27 5. The Amils have power to decide without record all claims not
28 ‘The power vested exceeding Rupees 20; with a record of proceedings
29 in the Amil Court. suits not in excess of Rupees 100 ; and, when assisted
30 by a Punchayet, all suits not exceeding Rupees 500. An appeal may be
31 filed in the Sudder Moonsiffs’ Courts in the second and third description,
32 but not in the first, unless when corruption or gross partiality is alleged, or