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Madras High Court

Index Madras High Court

The Madras High Court is the high court of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1]

85 relations: Adam Bittleston, Adarsh Sein Anand, Advice and consent, Ajit Prakash Shah, Appellate jurisdiction, Architect, Architecture of Chennai, Arthur Collins (judge), Asia, Asok Kumar Ganguly, Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, Bombay High Court, C. A. White, C. Rajagopalachari, Calcutta High Court, Ceremonial mace, Charles Arthur Turner, Chennai, Chennai Beach railway station, Chief Justice, Chief Justice of India, Christopher Rawlinson (judge), Colley Harman Scotland, Constitution of India, Edmond Stanley, Edward John Gambier, Frederick Gentle, Government of India, Governor - India, H. L. Gokhale, Henry Irwin, Heritage structures in Chennai, Huluvadi G. Ramesh, India, Indian High Courts Act 1861, Indira Banerjee, Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture, J. E. P. Wallis, John Henry Newbolt, Judge, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, K. G. Balakrishnan, Kolkata, Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami, Letters patent, Lighthouse, Chennai, Lionel Leach, List of high courts in India, M. Anantanarayanan, M. Y. Eqbal, ..., Madurai, Manmohan Singh Liberhan, Markandey Katju, Mumbai, Murray Coutts-Tratter, Mylapore, Nagendra Kumar Jain, Original jurisdiction, P. Chandra Reddy, P. R. Sundaram Iyer, P. V. Rajamannar, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Postal Index Number, Presidencies and provinces of British India, President of India, Puducherry, Queen Victoria, Rajesh Kumar Agrawal, Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, Ratio decidendi, Robert Buckley Comyn, Royal charter, S. Ramachandra Iyer, S. Subramania Iyer, Sadr Diwani Adalat, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Supreme Court of India, T. Muthuswamy Iyer, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, Union territory, V. Krishnaswamy Iyer, Walter George Salis Schwabe, Walter Morgan (judge). Expand index (35 more) »

Adam Bittleston

Sir Adam Bittleston (12 September 1817 – 18 January 1892) was a British-born Indian judge.

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Adarsh Sein Anand

Adarsh Sein Anand (1 November 1936 – 1 December 2017) was the 29th Chief Justice of India, serving from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001.

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Advice and consent

Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts.

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Ajit Prakash Shah

Ajit Prakash Shah(born 13 February 1948 at Solapur) is the former Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India.

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Appellate jurisdiction

Appellate jurisdiction is the power of a higher court to review decisions and change outcomes of decisions of lower courts.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Architecture of Chennai

Chennai architecture is a confluence of many architectural styles.

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Arthur Collins (judge)

Sir Arthur John Hammond Collins (1834 – 1915) was an English colonial judge who was Chief Justice of Madras.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Asok Kumar Ganguly

Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly is the former Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission and a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India who delivered judgement in some high-profile cases like the 2G spectrum case.

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Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock

Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator who was the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896.

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Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court (IAST) is one of the oldest High Courts of India.

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C. A. White

Sir Charles Arnold White was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1898 to 1899 and as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1899 to 1914.

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C. Rajagopalachari

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972) informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer and statesman.

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Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India.

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Ceremonial mace

A ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high official in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority.

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Charles Arthur Turner

Sir Charles Arthur Turner, K.C.I.E (6 March 1833 - 20 October 1907) was a British jurist, Chief Justice of Madras High Court.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chennai Beach railway station

Chennai Beach (formerly known as Madras Beach), is a railway terminus of the Southern Railway Network in Parry's Corner, Chennai, India.

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Chief Justice

The Chief Justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts.

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Chief Justice of India

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the head of the judiciary of India and the Supreme Court of India.

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Christopher Rawlinson (judge)

Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888), was a colonial judge who was Chief Justice of Madras.

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Colley Harman Scotland

Sir Colley Harman Scotland (1818–1903) was the first Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in India.

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Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.

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Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

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Edward John Gambier

Sir Edward John Gambier (1794–1879) was a colonial jurist and law officer, who served as a judge in British India, Chief Justice of Madras and Recorder of Penang, Singapore, Malacca.

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Frederick Gentle

Sir Frederick William Gentle (12 July 1892 – 24 February 1966) was a British judge.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Governor - India

The governors and lieutenant-governors/administrators of the states and union territories of India have similar powers and functions at the state level as that of the President of India at Union level.

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H. L. Gokhale

H.L.Gokhale (Hemant Laxman Gokhale) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

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Henry Irwin

Henry Irwin CIE (24 January 1841–5 August 1922) was an architect of British India.

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Heritage structures in Chennai

Chennai, with historically rich records dating from the British era, houses 2,467 heritage buildings within its metropolitan area (CMA), the highest within any Metropolitan Area limit in India.

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Huluvadi G. Ramesh

Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh (born 20 May 1957) is the second seniormost Judge at the Madras High Court in India since April 2016.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian High Courts Act 1861

The Indian High Courts Act of 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 104) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to authorize the Crown to create High Courts in the Indian colony.

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Indira Banerjee

Justice Indira Banerjee is the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the postition in India.

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Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture

Indo-Saracenic Revival (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, Hindoo style) was an architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj, and the palaces of rulers of the princely states.

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J. E. P. Wallis

Sir John Edward Power Wallis (1861–1946, Sussex) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras from 1900 to 1906, and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1914 to 1921.

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John Henry Newbolt

Sir John Henry Newbolt (1769 - 22 January 1823) was an English judge who served as Chief Justice of Madras and was founder of the Madras Literary Society.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for certain British territories and Commonwealth countries.

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K. G. Balakrishnan

Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan (K. G. Balakrishnan) (b. 12 May 1945) was the former Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami

Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami was chief justice of the Madras High Court of India from 5 January 1969 to 3 November 1976.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president, or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.

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Lighthouse, Chennai

The Madras Light House (சென்னைக் கலங்கரை விளக்கம்) is a lighthouse facing the Bay of Bengal on the east coast of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Lionel Leach

Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (3 February 1883 – 26 January 1960), popularly known as Lionel Leach, was a British judge who served as a judge of the Burma High Court from 1933 to 1937, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1937 to 1947 and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1949 to 1960.

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List of high courts in India

There are 24 high courts at the state and union territory level of India, which together with the Supreme Court of India at the national level, comprise the country's judicial system.

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M. Anantanarayanan

Madhavaiah Anantanarayanan (1 May 1907 – 18 November 1981) was an Indian lawyer and civil servant who served as the Chief Justice of Madras State (later Tamil Nadu) from 1966 to 1969.

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M. Y. Eqbal

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Madurai

Madurai is one of the major cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Manmohan Singh Liberhan

Manmohan Singh Liberhan (born 11 November 1938) is a retired Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, India.

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Markandey Katju

Justice Markandey Katju is the former Chairman, Press Council of India.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Murray Coutts-Tratter

Murray Coutts-Tratter (B. 1875 - ?) was the Chief justice of the Madras High Court.

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Mylapore

Mylapore is a cultural hub and neighborhood in the southern part of the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Nagendra Kumar Jain

Justice Nagendra Kumar Jain is an Indian judge, and the current chairman of Bar Council of Rajasthan.

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Original jurisdiction

The original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction, when a higher court has the power to review a lower court's decision.

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P. Chandra Reddy

Justice P. Chandra Reddy or Palagani Chandra Reddy (1 July 1904–7 October 1976) was an Indian judge.

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P. R. Sundaram Iyer

Puthucode Rama Sundaram Iyer (also spelt Sundara Aiyar) (1862–1913) was an Indian lawyer who served as one of the first Indian judges of the Madras High Court.

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P. V. Rajamannar

Pakala Venkataramana Rao Rajamannar (1901–1979) was an Indian judge and politician who served as the acting Governor of Madras State from 1957 to 1958.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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President of India

The President of the Republic of India is the head of state of India and the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Puducherry

Puducherry (literally New Town in Tamil), formerly known as Pondicherry, is a union territory of India.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rajesh Kumar Agrawal

Rajesh Kumar Agrawal (born 5 May 1953) was a judge on the Supreme Court of India.

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Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas

Ralph Matthew Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall (born 7 June 1951) is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative.

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Ratio decidendi

Ratio decidendi (Latin plural rationes decidendi) is a Latin phrase meaning "the reason" or "the rationale for the decision".

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Robert Buckley Comyn

Robert Buckley Comyn (26 October 1792 - 23 May 1853) was a British judge who served as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1835 to 1842.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

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S. Ramachandra Iyer

Subramanya Ramachandra Iyer (1 October 1901 - date of death unknown) was an Indian lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 10 May 1961 to 1 November 1964.

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S. Subramania Iyer

Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer KCIE (சுப்பையர் சுப்பிரமணிய ஐயர்) (1 October 1842 – 5 December 1924) was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Home Rule Movement.

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Sadr Diwani Adalat

The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat (صدر دیوانی عدالت) (English: Sudder Dewanny Adawlut) was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772.

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Sanjay Kishan Kaul

Sanjay Kishan Kaul is a judge of the Supreme Court of India.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.

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T. Muthuswamy Iyer

Sir Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer KCIE (28 January 1832 – 25 January 1895) was an Indian lawyer who, in 1877, became the first native Indian to be appointed as judge of the Madras High Court.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly alone has powers to legislate laws covering state subjects in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange

Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (November 30, 1756 – July 16, 1841) was a chief justice in Nova Scotia, known for waging "judicial war" to free Black Nova Scotian slaves from their owners.

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Union territory

A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.

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V. Krishnaswamy Iyer

Venkatarama Iyer Krishnaswamy Iyer (15 June 1863 – 28 December 1911) was an Indian lawyer and High Court judge of Madras.

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Walter George Salis Schwabe

Walter George Salis Schwabe (1873- 20 April 1931) was a British barrister and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1921 to 1924.

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Walter Morgan (judge)

Walter Morgan (1821-1903) was a British judge and the First Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_High_Court

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