JUDICIARY
At the commercial stage of its career, the East India Company had its own courts of law for administering justice among its servants. In 1772, Warren Hastings took the first step in providing a well organised judicial system. The system was stabilised by Lord Cornwallis. The Bengal Regulation (also known as the Cornwallis code) of 1793 bound the court to take decisions according to the provisions contained in it. To a great extent, the regulation accommodated the personal laws of Hindus and Muslims and stated them in clear terms in English and regional languages. The full codification of the Indian system of law and court procedure was taken up in 1833 when the government appointed the India Law Commission.
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