144 



THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



of procedure, but by clause 3 7 of the amended Letters Patent 

 it is directed that the rules and orders which the High Court 

 was thereby empowered to make, for regulating the proceed- 

 ings in civil cases, including proceedings in its Admiralty, 

 Vice -Admiralty, testamentary, intestate, and matrimonial 

 jurisdiction respectively, should be as far as possible in 

 accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Proce- 

 dure ; and a considerable alteration in the practice was 

 accordingly made by the rules and orders of the 5th July 

 1866. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras, consisting of 

 a Chief Justice and two Puisne Judges, was established within 

 the Settlement of Fort St. Greorge in the place of the Court 

 of the Recorder for that Presidency by Letters Patent, bearing 

 date at Westminster, the 26th December 1800 (41 Geo. III). 

 The Recorder, Sir Thomas Strange, was thereby appointed 

 the first Chief Justice of the new Courts, and Henry Grwillim 

 and Benjamin Sullivan, Esquires, the first Puisne Judges. 

 Brought out by Mr. Justice Grwillim, it was published at the 

 Presidency on the 4th of September 1801, 112 and still con- 

 tinues in force so far as it is not inconsistent with the provi- 

 sions of the Act 24 and 25 Vic, c. 104, and the Letters 

 Patent constituting the High Court. 113 



The Judges were to be Barristers in England or Ireland of 

 not less than five years' standing, to be named and appointed 

 by, and to hold office during, the pleasure of the Crown. The 

 Chief Justice was to have rank and precedence before all His 



112 Preface to Sir Thomas Strange' s Notes of Cases at Madras. 



113 Letters Patent, 26th June 1862, clause 44 ; amended Letters Patent, 

 28th December 1865, clauses 1 and 45. 



