The judicial system of Bangladesh has not grown overnight or in any particular period of history. The present legal and judicial system of Bangladesh owes its origin mainly to 200 years British rule in the Indian subcontinent although some elements of it are remnants of Pre-British period tracing back to Hindu and Muslim administration. It passed through various stages and has been gradually developed as a continuous historical process. The process of evolution has been partly indigenous and partly foreign and the legal system of the present day emanates from a mixed system which has structure, legal principles and concepts modeled on both Indo-Mughal and English law. The Indian subcontinent has a known history of over 500 years with Hindu and Muslim periods which preceded the British period, and each of these early periods had a distinctive legal system of its own.
