Zillah decisions, Lower provinces (Bengal)

"There were ... the Zillah, or district courts ... Under 'Act XII. of 1843,' the registers of ... the courts in every province began to print monthly reports of all the cases decided. The series thus begun continued for many years ... This immense mass ... more than a hundred volumes, of unarranged and undigested cases, mainly on Oriental law, is nowhere adequately catalogued or described .. They are paged so irregularly, sometimes by provinces, sometimes by months or years, without titlepages or indexes, that their division into volumes seems to be purely arbitrary."--Soule, C.C. The lawyer's ref. manual, p. 142 Binder's title. No t.-p. or index ever issued FOR COMPLETE RECORD SEE CHECKLIST