IO Islamic 4357 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Transcripts of legal documents, scroll
Contents
Scroll assembling transcripts for trial evidence, over 72 documents (applications for appeal, appendices, original verdicts, supporting deeds, accounts, etcetera), submitted to the Court of Appeal (Kūrt-i Apīl), ʿAẓīm'ābād (Patna, Bihar), in the case (muqaddimah) of Mīr ʿAlīm Allāh, appellant, against Lav Rāy and Tīkā Rāy, respondents/defendants, presented 1796
Some documents have been endorsed by legal and EIC officials, with dates
Prefixed with lengthy list of contents
Large portion of beginning matter missing
Impressions of the seal of office placed on reverse side, over the joins between paper sheets, presently obscured (along with other inscriptions) by stiff and opaque cloth backing
Torn, creased, warped, stained, wormholes; very fragile
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