Chapter CAWNPORE to CAZEE of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

bottom of the record of the proceedings held in the trial, the futwa or law as applicable to the circumstances of the case.…The Judges of the Court shall attentively consider such futwa, &c.”—Ibid.

1791.—“The Judges of the Courts of Circuit shall refer to the Kazi and Mufti of their respective Courts all questions on points of law…regarding which they may not have been furnished with specific instructions from the G.-G. in C. or the Nizamut Adawlut.…”—Regn. No. XXXV.

1792.—Revenue Regulation of July 20, No. lxxv., empowers Landholders and Farmers of Land to distrain for Arrears of Rent or Revenue. The “Kazi of the Pegunnah” is the official under the Collector, repeatedly referred to as regulating and carrying out the distraint. So, again, in Regn. XVII. of 1793.

1793.—“lxvi. The Nizamut Adaulat shall continue to be held at Calcutta.

“lxvii. The Court shall consist of the Governor-General, and the members of the Supreme Council, assisted by the head Cauzy of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, and two Muftis.” (This was already in the Regulations of 1791.)—Regn. IX. of 1793. See also quotation under MUFTY.

1793.—“I. Cauzies are stationed at the Cities of Patna, Dacca, and Moorshedabad, and the principal towns, and in the pergunnahs, for the purpose of preparing and attesting deeds of transfer, and other law papers, celebrating marriages, and performing such religious duties or ceremonies prescribed by the Mahommedan law, as have been hitherto discharged by them under the British Government.”—Reg. XXXIX. of 1793.

1803.—Regulation XLVI. regulates the appointment of Cauzy in towns and pergunnahs, “for the purpose of preparing and attesting deeds of transfer, and other law papers, celebrating marriages,” &c., but makes no allusion to judicial duties.

1824.—“Have you not learned this common saying—‘Every one’s teeth are blunted by acids except the cadi’s, which are by sweets.’”—Hajji Baba, ed. 1835, p. 316.

1864.—“Whereas it is unnecessary to continue the offices of Hindoo and Mahomedan Law-Officers, and is inexpedient that the appointment of Cazee-ool-Cozaat, or of City, Town, or Pergunnah Cazees should be made by Government, it is enacted as follows:—

“II. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent a Cazee-ool-Cozaat or other Cazee from performing, when required to do so, any duties or ceremonies prescribed by the Mahomedan Law.” —Act No. XI. of 1864.

1880.—“…whereas by the usage of the Muhammadan community in some parts of India the presence of Kázís appointed by the Government is required at the celebration of marriages.…”—Bill introduced into the Council of Gov.-Gen., January 30, 1880.

„ “An Act for the appointment of persons to the office of Kází.

“Whereas by the preamble to Act No. XI. of 1864…it was (among other things declared inexpedient, &c.)…and whereas by the usage of the Muhammadan community in some parts of India the presence of Kázís appointed by the Government is required at the celebration of marriages and the performance of certain other rites and ceremonies, and it is therefore expedient that the Government should again be empowered to appoint such persons to the office of Kází ; It is hereby enacted…” —Act No. XII. of 1880.

1885.—“To come to something more specific. ‘There were instances in which men of the most venerable dignity, persecuted without a cause by extortioners, died of rage and shame in the gripe of the vile alguazils of Impey’ [Macaulay’s Essay on Hastings].

“Here we see one Cazi turned into an indefinite number of ‘men of the most venerable dignity’ ; a man found guilty by legal process of corruptly oppressing a helpless widow into ‘men of the most venerable dignity’ persecuted by extortioners without a cause ; and a guard of sepoys, with which the Supreme Court had nothing to do, into ‘vile alguazils of Impey.’”—Stephen, Story of Nuncomar, ii. 250–251.

Cazee also is a title used in Nepal for Ministers of State.

1848.—“Kajees, Counsellors, and mitred Lamas were there, to the number of twenty, all planted with their backs to the wall, mute and motionless as statues.”—Hooker’s Himalayan Journals. ed. 1855, i. 286.

1868.—“The Durbar (of Nepal) have written to the four Kajees of Thibet enquiring the reason.”—Letter from Col. R. Laurence, dated 1st April, regarding persecution of R. C. Missions in Tibet.

1873.—

“Ho, lamas, get ye ready,
Ho, Kazis, clear the way ;
The chief will ride in all his pride
To the Rungeet Stream to-day.”

Wilfrid Heeley, A Lay of Modern Darjeeling.