Moore's Indian Appeals - A 14 volume set of nominate reports by English barrister Edmund F. Moore, published in London from 1837 to 1872 under the full title of Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council on Appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny Courts in the East Indies, but more usually referred to as Moore's Indian Appeals and cited for example as: Moofti Mohummud Ubdoollah v. Baboo Mootechund 1 M.I.A. 383.
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