Excerpt from Judgments and Other Decisions and Directions of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon: From the Promulgation of the New Charter, 1st Oct; 1833 to March 1836
The following notes consist of the recorded decisions of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, whether in the shape of judgments, letters to District Judges, answers to petitions, or in any other mode in which its opinions may have been expressed, on points of law or practice, from 1st Oct. 1833, when the new Charter of Justice came into operation, up to March 1836. My inducement in occupying myself, since my relinquishment of office, in arranging these decisions, and throwing them into a digested form, arose out of the interest, which every one must naturally be supposed to take, in the continued success and reputation of any institution, in the formation of which he has taken any part. In making use of this expression, however, let me guard myself against the supposition, that I am assuming any merit, as regards the original construction of the present system of judicature in Ceylon. I feel bound on this occasion, as I have done on every former one, to admit that, so far from being entitled to claim any share in the paternity of that system, I entertained at first sight great doubts of its applicability to Ceylon; though, when once its introduction was decided upon, I considered it my duty to give my humble assistance, as far as that was called for, towards maturing and improving its details, and to apply myself to the task of bringing it into operation, with a zeal which should leave no room for supposing that my doubts had any tendency to diminish my exertions.
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