Courts at Bombay and Madras

At Madras and Bombay Mayor's Courts based on the English municipal model existed till 1797 when they were replaced by Recorder's Courts, subject to the same limitations as were imposed on the Supreme Court at Fort William by the Act of 1781. They had jurisdiction over British subjects resident in the territories of the governments of Madras and Bombay or in the native states in alliance with those governments. Courts of request were established by a Charter of 1753. The Recorder's Courts in 1801 and 1823 respectively. The Courts of Request also were superseded by the establishment of Small Cause Courts in 1850.