CPC Section 7 — Provincial Small Cause Courts

Civil

Summary

Certain parts of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply to courts set up under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act or similar laws. These excluded parts include rules about suits that small cause courts cannot handle, how to enforce decrees in those suits, and how to enforce decrees against land or buildings. Also, several specific sections of the Code are not applicable, including those dealing with attachment of immovable property, injunctions, appointment of a receiver for immovable property, and appeals or revisions under sections 96 to 112 and 115.

Official Text

The following provisions shall not extend to Courts 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 a corresponding jurisdiction that is to say.--

(a) so much of the body of the Code as relates to--

(i) suits excepted from the cognizance of a Court of Small Causes;

(ii) the execution of decrees in such suits;

(iii) the execution of decrees against immovable property; and

(b) the following sections, that is to say,-- section 9, sections 91 and 92, sections 94 and 95 so far as they authorize or relate to--

(i) orders for the attachment of immovable property,

(ii) injunctions,

(iii) the appointment of a receiver of immovable property, or

(iv) the interlocutory orders to in clause (e) of section 94, and sections 96 to 112 and 115.