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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



Sudder Adawlut subject to the rules in force applicable to 

 Pleaders in the latter Court, and this privilege was extended 

 to the Attornies of the Supreme Court by Act XX of 1853, 

 which further provided that such Barristers and Attornies 

 should be entitled to plead not only in the Sudder but in 

 any of the Courts subordinate thereto. These Courts, how- 

 ever, recognised no distinction of classes amongst the practi- 

 tioners before them, and treated all simply as Pleaders, with 

 power to appear and act as well as to plead. There were 

 thus in existence at the time of the amalgamation of the 

 Supreme and Sudder Courts by the establishment of the 

 High Court three classes of practitioners, the Vakeel of the 

 Sudder, and the Barristers and Attornies of the Supreme 

 Court, some of whom had been also admitted as Vakeels 

 besides being entitled to practise as such under the Acts just 

 noticed. The High Court was accordingly empowered by 

 the charter of 1862 to approve, admit, and enrol Advocates 

 who were authorised to appear and plead, Vakeels who were 

 authorised to appear, plead, and act, and Attornies-at-Law 

 who were authorised to appear and act for the suitors of the 

 Court, and by the amended charter of the 28th December 

 1865 to approve, admit, and enrol Advocates, Vakeels and 

 Attornies who were authorised to appear for the suitors and 

 to plead or to act, or to plead and act according as the High 

 Court might by its rules and directions determine. 



In exercise of these powers all the Advocates and Attornies, 

 or Solicitors of the Supreme Court, and all the Vakeels of the 

 Sudder Court were by the rules of 28th August 1862 admitted 

 as Advocates, Attornies-at-law and Vakeels of the High 

 Court, and placed as nearly as possible in the positions which 

 they had respectively occupied in the abolished Courts, the 

 Appellate Side of the High Court being taken to represent the 

 Sudder and the Original Side as representing the Supremo 

 Court. 



