Question

Law notes on the governor generalship of lord cornwallis

Answer 1

The Governor-Generalship of Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793) constitutes a very remarkable and a highly creative period in Indian legal history. He thoroughly reorganised the judicial system. He introduced for the first time the principle of administration according to law. He made very important and far-reaching reforms in the judicial administration, some of the basic principles of which exist even upto now. The reforms were made by Cornwallis in three stages in 1787, 1790 and 1793.