Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. POWERS OF COURTS. A.?Description of offences cognizable by each Court. 28. Subject to the other provisions of this Code, any offence under the Indian Penal Code Offences under Penal mfty fae tried by the High Court or Court of Session or by any other Court by which such offence is shown in the eighth column of the second schedule to Be triable. See ss. 193, 194. Except as provided in s. 477, Sessions Judges can only try cases committed to them by Magistrates. The High Court exercises appellate jurisdiction over the Province. The original jurisdiction of the Calcutta High Court is confined to the town of Calcutta. But see ss. 447, 456, 526. 29. Any offence under any other law shall, when any Offences under other Court is mentioned in this behalf in laws. such law, be tried by such Court. When no Court is so mentioned, it may be tried by the High Court or by any Court constituted under this Code: Provided that ? (a.) no Magistrate of the first class shall try any such offence which is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may exceed seven years; (6) no Magistrate of the second class shall try any such offence which is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years; and (c) no Magistrate of the third class shall try any such offence which is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year. The Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice has jurisdiction over all offences committed in India or the Colonies which render the offender liable to be tried in England under 11 Will. III., c. 12, or 13 Geo. III., c. 63, s. 39, or 42 Geo. III., c. 85. 30. In the territories respectively administered by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab and the nlief Commissioners of Ou...