[3] The second phase (from 1864 to 1947) is marked by the dismissal of court pandits, the rise of legislative processes, and a codified law system.
[4] The British had been observing the country for nearly twenty years before their first implemented legal plan for renovating India's method of governing.
Customary law was the main type of government in the territories and differed greatly in defining crime, punishment, guilt, how courts were organized and so on.
[10] They believed this system to be dysfunctional and an invitation for corruption, due to the ability of judges to decide a case as they saw fit with no precedent.
Warren Hastings’ Judicial Plan included a provision which left certain religious matters to traditional law.