Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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The Law of Torts
Appellate body whose rulings establish that municipal courts cannot adjudicate transactions between independent states, applied across colonial and railway cases.
101, and cases there cited.
Our courts of justice profess themselves not competent to discuss acts of these kinds for reasons thus expressed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council:
It has been held by the Judicial Committee that the Lieutenant-Governor of a colony is not exempt from suit in the courts of that colony for a debt or other merely private cause of action;
The Genius of the Common Law
Appellate body whose decisions, alongside those of Indian superior courts and English courts, are cited extensively throughout British India.
Not only the decisions of Indian superior courts and of the Judicial Committee on appeal therefrom, but those of English courts, are cited wholesale throughout British India, frequently by advocates who cannot know much of the Common Law and before judges or magistrates who may know as little;