Dinshah Fardunji Mulla


Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla CIE, also known as Dinshaw Mulla, was an Indian author of legal reference books. D.F Mulla was an Attorney-at-Law of the Bombay High Court and was a professor of law at Government Law College, Bombay and a Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, India.
Mulla was knighted 5 April 1930. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1930 during the reign of King George V, serving on the Judicial Committee from January 1931. He was the assistant editor of Pollock’s Commentaries on Indian Contract Act. Though he belonged to the Zoroastrian religion, he published on Sharia law. His Principles of Mahomedan Law is a well-known Hanafi law text that discusses the application of sharia law in India and Pakistan.

Works

  1. Commentaries on the Code of Civil Procedure code
  2. Jurisdiction of Courts in the matters relating to rights and power of cases
  3. The law of insolvency in British India
  4. Indian Contract Act
  5. Hindu Law relates to religious and charitable trust
  6. The Registration Act
  7. The Key to Indian Practice