• The Advocate-General of Bombay was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Bombay Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency...
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    1944. Bombay Army Cowaszee Nanabhoy Davar List of governors of Bombay Portuguese Bombay and Bassein Advocate-General of Bombay High Court of Bombay History...
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  • In India, an advocate general is a legal advisor to a state government. The post was created by the Constitution of India (vide Article 165) and corresponds...
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    rule of India, by Sir Thomas Strangman, the Advocate General of Bombay, at the behest of Adamjee Peerbhoy's family against the 51st Dai al-Mutlaq of the...
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    including the advocate general of Bombay, the Lokayukta and Upa Lokayukta, the state election commissioner, the chairman and members of the Maharashtra...
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  • the Advocate-General of Bombay were also allowed to participate and vote in the Council. The first meeting of the erstwhile Legislative Council of the...
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  • M. C. Setalvad (category Attorneys general of India)
    law in Bombay and eventually became Advocate General of Bombay and Attorney General for India in 1950, in the formative years of Government of India,...
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    the acting Advocate General of Bombay, John Molesworth MacPherson, invited Jinnah to work from his chambers. In 1900, P. H. Dastoor, a Bombay presidency...
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  • later became Advocate-General of Bombay. Hassard Hume Dodgson (1803/4 – fl. 1872) was a master of the Common Pleas and was the father-in-law of Charles Edward...
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    because of his own ill-health and financial difficulties. The house was bought in 1890 by the Hon. Francis Law Latham, the then Advocate-General of Bombay. In...
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  • George Lowndes (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    and judge in British India, who served as Advocate-General of Bombay and Minister of Law as Law Member of the Viceregal Executive Council, during which...
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    Thomas Strangman (category Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
    practised in Bombay, twice served as Advocate-General of Bombay (1908–1915 and 1916–1922), and as such was an ex officio member of the Bombay Legislative...
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  • Michael Roberts Westropp (category Chief justices of the Bombay High Court)
    of the Bombay High Court and former Advocate General of the Supreme Court, Bombay Presidency. Westropp was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was the son of...
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    Lyttleton Bayley (category Attorneys general of the Colony of New South Wales)
    who served as Attorney-General of New South Wales, Acting Chief Justice at the Bombay High Court and Advocate-General of Bombay. He was also an amateur...
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  • Consulted on the prospects of a successful appeal against the verdict on Aurobindo, the advocate general of Bombay the chance of obtaining a conviction "fair"...
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    Basil Scott (category Chief justices of the Bombay High Court)
    Advocate-General in 1899 and was also appointed permanent Advocate-General of Bombay. In 1906 he was elevated as Puisne Judge and after retirement of...
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    Advocate of Supreme Court of India and of Bombay High Court Anil Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India Fali S. Nariman, Senior Advocate of Supreme...
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    Taher Saifuddin (category Vice-chancellors of Aligarh Muslim University)
    rule of India, by Sir Thomas Strangman, the Advocate General of Bombay, at the behest of Adamjee Peerbhoy's family against the 51st Dai al-Mutlaq of the...
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    Carlos Alvares Ferreira (category Advocates General for Indian states)
    youngest serving Advocates General in Indian history. Ferreira has also held the positions of the State Public Prosecutor in the Bombay High Court in Goa...
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    The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman...
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    Anil C. Singh (category Senior advocates in India)
    the chairman of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. In 2012, Singh was designated as senior advocate by Hon'ble Bombay High Court. He is serving as an...
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  • Hormasji Maneckji Seervai (category Advocates General for Indian states)
    1929. In 1932, he joined the Chambers of Sir Jamshedji Behramji Kanga. Seervai served as Advocate General of Bombay from 1957 to 1960 and Maharashtra from...
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  • 1900, Butler married Margaret Edith, second daughter of Francis Law Latham, Advocate-General of Bombay, 1884–1893. There had one son and two daughters. He...
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    Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai (category Judges of the Bombay High Court)
    with Bar. Raja S. Bhonsale, former advocate general and judge of the High Court. He practiced independently at Bombay High Court from 1987 to 1990. After...
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    Andrew Scoble (category Members of the Bombay Legislative Council)
    the City of London School and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1856. From 1870 to 1877, he served as the Advocate-General of Bombay, in which...
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  • Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton (category Advocates General for Tamil Nadu)
    Justice of the Supreme Court of Bombay, and Advocate-General of Madras and Calcutta. Draper Compton was the only son of Walter Abingdon Compton of Gloucestershire...
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    Malcolm Jardine (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
    School until 1903. Subsequently, he was Clerk of the Crown, before being appointed Advocate General of Bombay in 1915 before retiring from India in 1916...
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  • inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) were the earliest known settlers of the islands. Between...
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    Kanhaiya Lal Misra (category Advocate General Uttar Pradesh)
    1975) was an Indian lawyer and independence activist. He was the Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh from 1952 to 1969. The judicial wheel is rounded with...
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  • University of Mumbai (formerly known as University of Bombay) is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the...
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