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how did the british deal with dispensing justice in india?

In the mid nineteenth century the British instituted a legal system for India.

1. The British together was a system of precedents, customs and laws to regulate offence in India.

2. One of the landmarks of the system was the common law system.

3. The British put in place a system which mixed both the common law system which depends on judgments and precedents and a system of laws and statutory law.

4. The British put in place tough laws on sedition and public gatherings to impose order on an increasingly restive population.