AN ANALYTICAL DIGEST OF ALL THE REPORTED CASES DECIDED IN THE SUPREME COURTS OF JUDICATURE IN INDIA, IN THE COURTS OF THE HON. EAST-INDIA COMPANY, AND ON APPEAL FROM INDIA, BY HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, ILLUSTRATIVE AND EXPLANATORY, AND AN APPENDIX. BY WILLIAM H. MORLEY, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQUIRE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, AND OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS. IF IT BE ASKED HOW THE LAW SHALL BE ASCERTAINED WHEN PARTICULAR CASES ARE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. CONTAINING THE APPENDIX. LONDON: WM. H. ALLEN AND Co., LEADENHALL STREET; V. AND R. STEVENS AND G. S. NORTON, 26 BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN, AND 194 FLEET STREET; OSTELL AND LEPAGE, CALCUTTA. MDCCC XLIX. "THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW THEN IS THIS : THAT PRECEDENTS AND RULES MUST BE FOLLOWED, UNLESS FLATLY ABSURD AND UNJUST: FOR THOUGH THEIR REASON BE NOT OBVIOUS AT FIRST VIEW, YET WE OWE SUCH A DEFERENCE TO FORMER TIMES AS NOT TO SUPPOSE THAT THEY ACTED WHOLLY WITHOUT CONSIDERATION. UPON THE WHOLE, WE MAY TAKE IT AS A GENERAL RULE, THAT THE DECISIONS OF THE COURTS OF JUSTICE ARE THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT IS COMMON LAW:' IN THE SAME MANNER AS, IN THE CIVIL LAW, WHAT THE EMPEROR HAD ONCE DETERMINED WAS TO SERVE FOR A GUIDE FOR THE FUTURE." Blackstone's Commentaries, Introd. Sec. 3. Entered at Stationers' Pall, AND REGISTERED IN INDIA ACCORDING TO ACT XX. OF 1847. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM WATTS, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR. CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE SECOND. I. Sir Edward Hyde East's Notes of Decided Cases II. Sir Erskine Perry's Notes of Decided Cases . III. Papers on the Police of Bombay-- I. Letter from the Chief Secretary to Government and the II. Letter from the Hon. Sir James Mackintosh on the Police of the Island of Bombay, and reply thereto from the Secretary to Government. Dated the 26th Oct. 1811. . 501 IV. Charters establishing the Supreme Courts of Judicature in India- |