Chapter III Chapter III

Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, the jurisdiction of a Principal District Judge or Civil Judge (Senior Division) extends, subject to the provisions of Section 15 of the Code of Civil Procedure, [1908] to all original suits for the time being cognizable by civil courts.

(1) Save as aforesaid, and subject to the provision of sub-Section (2), the jurisdiction of a Civil Judge (Junior Division) extends to all like suits of which the value does not exceed five lakhs rupees. (2) The State Government may, on the recommendation of the High Court, direct, by notification in the official Gazette, with respect to any Civil Judge (Junior Division) named therein, that his jurisdiction shall extend to all like suits of such value not exceeding seven lakhs rupees as may be specified in the notification. (Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, delegate to the High Court its power under this section).

(1) Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, an appeal from a decree or order of a district Judge or an District Judge shall lie to the High Court. (2) An appeal shall not lie to the High Court from a decree or order of an District Judge in any case in which, if the decree or order had been made by the Principal District Judge, an appeal would not lie to that Court.

(1) Save as afore said, an appeal from a decree or order of a Civil Judge (Senior Division) shall lie- (a) to the district Judge where the value of the original suit in which or in any proceeding arising out of which the decree or order was made was less than twenty five lakhs rupees and (b) to the High Court in any other case. (2) Save as aforesaid, an appeal from a decree or order of a Civil Judge (Junior Division) shall lie to the district Judge. Provided that the High Court may at any time decide/direct that any Appeal of class or group of Appeals filed before it at any time, shall be transferred to Principal District Judge or District Judge, and on such decision being taken or order being passed by the High Court, such Appeal or class or group of Appeals shall so stand transferred to such a transferee court which shall hear and dispose of such an Appeal or class or group of Appeals, as if, the same had been filed before it under clause (a) (3) Where the function of receiving any appeals which lie to the Principal District Judge under sub-Section (1) or sub-Section (2) has been assigned to District Judge, the appeals may be preferred to the District judge. (4) The High Court may, with the previous sanction of the (State) Government, direct, by notification in the official Gazette, that appeals lying to the Principal District judge under sub-Section (2) from all or any of the decrees or orders of any Civil Judge (Junior Division) shall be preferred to the Court of such Civil Judge (Senior Division) as may be mentioned in the notification, and the appeals shall thereupon be