Madras City Civil Court Act, 1892
No: 7 Dated: Aug, 12 1892
THE MADRAS CITY CIVIL COURT ACT, 1892
ACT NO. 7 OF 1892
An Act to establish an additional Civil Court for the City of Madras.
WHEREAS it is expedient to establish an additional Civil Court for the City of Madras;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
1. Title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Madras City Civil Court Act, 1892;
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,—
(1) “City Court” means the Court established under the next following section;
(2) “City of Madras” means the area within the local limits for the time being of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court;
(3) “High Court” means the High Court of Judicature at Madras; and
(4) “Small Cause Court” means the Court of Small Causes of Madras.
3. Constitution of the City Court.—The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, establish a Court, to be called the Madras City Civil Court, with jurisdiction to receive, try and dispose of all suits and other proceedings of a civil nature not exceeding two thousand five hundred rupees in value and arising within the City of Madras, except suits or proceedings which are cognizable—
(a) by the High Court as a Court of Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty or as a Colonial Court of Admiralty, or as a Court having testamentary, intestate or matrimonial jurisdiction, or
(b) by the Court for the relief of inso0lvent debtors, or
(c) by the Small Cause Court.
4. Appointment, suspension and removal of Judges.—The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint so many persons as it may think fit to be Judges of the City Court; and may, for any misconduct by a like notification, suspend or remove any Judge so appointed.
5. Judge of City Court to be Judge of Small Clause Court.—(1) Every person appointed a Judge of the City Court shall be, by virtue of his office, a Judge of the Small Cause Court with respect to cases cognizable by that Court.
(2) Every such Judge shall be liable to perform any duties of a Judge of the Small Cause Court which the Chief Justice of the High Court may require him to perform.
6. Powers of Judges when City Court consists of more than one Judge.—When the City Court consists of more than one Judge,—
(a) each of the Judges may exercise all or any of the powers conferred on the Court by this Act or any other law for the time being in force;
(b) the Local Government may appoint any one of the Judges to be the principal Judge; and
(c) the principal Judge may, from time to time, make such arrangements as he may think fit for the distribution of the business of the Court among the various Judges thereof.