Suits Valuation Act, 1887
No: 7 Dated: Feb, 11 1887
THE SUITS VALUATION ACT, 1887
ACT NO. 7 OF 1887
An Act to prescribe the mode of valuing certain suits for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of Courts with respect thereto.
WHEREAS it is expedient to prescribe the mode of valuing certain suits for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of Courts with respect thereto;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
1. Title.—This Act may be called the Suits Valuation Act, 1887 [and it [extends] to the whole of India except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.
PART I
SUITS RELATING TO LAND
2. Extent and commencement of Part 1.—This Part shall extend to such local areas, and come into force therein on such dates as the [State Government], by notification in the Official Gazette directs.
3. Power for State Government to make rules determining value of land for jurisdictional purposes.—(1) The State Government may make rules for determining the value of land for purposes of jurisdiction in the suits mentioned in the Court-fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), section 7, paragraphs v and vi, and paragraph x, clause (d).
(2) The rules may determine the value of any class of land, or of any interest in land, in the whole or any part of a local area, and may prescribe different values for different places within the same local area.
4. Valuation of relief in certain suits relating to land not to exceed the value of the land.—Where a suit mentioned in the Court-fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), section 7, paragraph iv, or Schedule II, article 17, relates to land or an interest in land of which the value has been determined by rules under the last foregoing section, the amount at which for purposes of jurisdiction the relief sought in the suit is valued shall not exceed the value of the land or interest as determined by those rules.
5. Making and enforcement of rules.—(1) The State Government shall, before making rules under section 3, consult the High Court with respect thereto.
(2) A rule under that section shall not take effect till the expiration of one month after the rule has been published in the Official Gaz ette.
6. Repeal of section 14 of the Madras Civil Courts Act, 1873.—On and from the date on which rules under section 3 take effect in any part of the territories under the administration of the Governor of Fort Saint George in Council to which the Madras Civil Courts Act 1873), (3 of 1873), extends, section 14 of that Act shall be repealed as regards that part of those territories.
PART II
OTHER SUITS
7. Extent and commencement of Part II.—This Part shall come into force on the first day of July, 1887.
8. Court-fee value and jurisdictional value to be the same in certain suits.—Where in suits other than those referred to in the Court-fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), section 7, paragraphs v, vi and ix, and paragraph x, clause (d), court-fees are payable ad valorem under the Court-fees Act, 1870, the value as determinable for the computation of court-fees and the value for purposes of jurisdiction shall be the same.