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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order L: Provincial Small Cause Courts

Order L Rule 1 CPC: Provincial Small Cause Courts

Bare Act text

1. Provincial Small Cause Courts.—The provisions hereinafter specified shall not extend to Court constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act 1887 (9 of 1887) [or under the Berar Small Cause Courts Law, 1905] or to Courts exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes [under the said Act or Law] [or to Courts in [any part of India to which the said Act does not extend] exercising a corresponding jurisdiction that is to say—

(a) so much of this Schedule as relates to—

(i) suits excepted from the cognizance of a Court of Small Causes or the execution of decrees in such suits;

(ii) the execution of decrees against immovable property or the interest of a partner in partnership property;

(iii) the settlement of issues; and

(b) the following rules and orders:— Order II, rule 1 (frame of suit); Order X, rule 3 (record of examination of parties); Order XV, except so much of rule 4 as provides for the pronouncement at once of judgment; Order XVIII, rule 5 to 12 (evidence); Order XLI, to XLV (appeals); Order XLVII, rules 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (review); Order LI.

State amendments

Uttar Pradesh Amendment of the First Schedule.—In the First Schedule to the said Code, in the Order L, in rule 1, in clause (b) for the words and figures “Order XV, except so much of rule 4 as provides for the pronouncement at once of judgment”, the words as figures “Order XV, except so much of rule 4 as provides for the pronouncement at once of judgment and rule 5” shall be substituted.

[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 19 of 1973, s. 3]

Amendment notes

  1. Ins. by Act 4 of 1941, s. 2, and Sch. III.
  2. Subs. by s. 2, and Sch. III, ibid., for “under that Act”.
  3. Ins. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 18.
  4. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956 , for “Part B States”.

Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), First Schedule, as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Specified provisions of the Schedule do not extend to Courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 or the Berar Small Cause Courts Law, 1905, to Courts exercising Small Causes jurisdiction, or to Courts exercising corresponding jurisdiction elsewhere. They include provisions on suits excepted from Small Causes cognizance and execution of decrees in such suits, and on execution against immovable property or a partner's interest. They also include provisions on settlement of issues and listed rules, among them Order II rule 1, Orders XLI to XLV on appeals and parts of Order XLVII on review.