Mughal Administration c10.s1.5

c10.s1.5

The main defect of the department of law and justice was that there was no system, no organization of the law courts in a regular gradation from the highest to the lowest, nor any proper distribution of courts in proportion to the area to be served by them. The bulk of the litigation in the country (excluding those decided by caste elders or village panchayets, mostly for the Hindus) naturally came up before the courts of the qazis and sadars. The qualifications and duties of these officers have been described in Ch. II. [*Ain.* ii. 41.]