For the Statement of Objects and Reasons for the Bill which was based on a report of Her Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to prepare a body of substantive law for India, dated 6th July 1866, see Gazette of India, 1867 Extraordinary, p. 34; for the Report of the Select Committee, see ibid., Extraordinary, dated 28th March 1872; for discussions in Council, see ibid., 1867, Supplement, p. 1064; ibid., 1871, p. 313, and ibid., 1872, p. 527. It has been amended in C.P. by C.P. Act 1 of 1915 and in C.P. and Berar by C.P. and Berar Act 15 of 1938.