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'''Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (1868 – 26 April 1934),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla - Person - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp142716|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-29|website=National Portrait Gallery, London}}</ref> 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, Mumbai|Government Law College, Bombay]] and a Member of the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council#India|Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]], India.

Born in 1868 in Bombay to a family of merchants, he spent his childhood and teenage years in the family residence in Onlooker Mansion, Borabazar. After having studied law at Government Law College, he enrolled as an Articled Clerk with an English Solicitor in 1892. He founded the firm Mulla & Mulla with his brother Eruchshaw Mulla in 1895, whence they operated initially from a small office in Readymoney Mansion until moving in to what is now Mulla House, in 1898. Mulla & Mulla would go on to eventually buy out Mulla House from the Petit family in 1912. In 1949, Mulla & Mulla would merge with the firm of English solicitors, Craigie Blunt & Caroe, who were based out of Ballard Estate and had a roaring admiralty and maritime practice. Mulla was knighted 5 April 1930.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=33595 | date=8 April 1930 |page=2251 }}</ref> He was appointed a [[List of Privy Counsellors (1910–36)#1930|Privy Counsellor]] in 1930<ref name="gazette19december1930">{{London Gazette |issue=33671 |date=19 December 1930 |page=8141 }}</ref> during the reign of King [[George V]], serving on the Judicial Committee from January 1931.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=33680 | date=13 January 1931 |page=299 }}</ref> He was the assistant editor of Pollock’s Commentaries on Indian Contract Act.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/indiancontractac00polliala|title=The Indian contract act : with a commentary, critical and explanatory|last2=India. Indian Contract Act|last3=Mulla|first3=Dinshah Fardunji|date=1909|publisher=London : Sweet & Maxwell|last1=Pollock|first1=Frederick|accessdate=2016-12-02}}</ref> Though he belonged to the [[Zoroastrian]] religion, he published on [[Sharia]] law{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}. His ''Principles of Mahomedan Law'' is a well-known [[Hanafi]] law text that discusses the application of sharia law in India and Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|title=Islamic Law: Personal Law - Dictionary definition of Islamic Law: Personal Law {{!}} Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/islamic-law-personal-law|website=www.encyclopedia.com|accessdate=2 December 2016}}</ref>

==Works==
#Commentaries on the Code of Civil Procedure code
#Jurisdiction of Courts in the matters relating to rights and power of cases
#The law of insolvency in British India
#{{Cite book |title=Principles of Mahomedan Law |oclc=35765|year=1905}}
#{{Cite book |title=Principles of Hindu Law |oclc=16519845|year=1912}}
#Indian Contract Act
#Hindu Law relates to religious and charitable trust
#The Registration Act
#The Key to Indian Practice

==References==
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