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What must have been the main inspiration of Lord Macaulay to go in for the codification of the Indian…

Lord Macaulay's principal motivation in codifying Indian criminal law, while English criminal law remained uncodified common law, was the "Need to have certainty in the…

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What must have been the main inspiration of Lord Macaulay to go in for the codification of the Indian criminal law, while the criminal law of United Kingdom remained uncodified common law?

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Lord Macaulay's principal motivation in codifying Indian criminal law, while English criminal law remained uncodified common law, was the "Need to have certainty in the laws", so that the law would be clearly stated in a code rather than developed piecemeal through judicial precedent.

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