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Clause substituted for section 22 of revised Letters Patent of Bombay High Court.-In lieu of the said recited section, the following shall be substituted :-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and we do further ordain that the said High Court of Judicature at Bombay shall have ordinary original criminal jurisdiction within the local limits of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, and also in respect of all persons beyond such limits over whom the said High Court of Judicature at Bombay shall have criminal jurisdiction at the date of the publication of these presents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n1. Short title given by the Bombay Short Titles Act, 1921 (Bom. 2 of<br \/>\n1921).<br \/>\n2. See Gen. 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Preamble.-WHEREAS the twenty-second section of the Letters Patent for the High Court of Judicature for the Presidency of Bombay, dated the 28th December, 1865, is as follows:-,,And we do further ordain that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[118,117,116,120,121,119],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-laws","tag-bare-acts","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-notifications","tag-of-india","tag-rules"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>THE BOMBAY HIGH COURT (LETTERS PATENT) ACT, 1866 - Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An Act to correct two clerical errors in the 2Letters Patent for the High Court of Judicature for the Presidency of Bombay. 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