## CPC 7

### CPC 7 — Provincial Small Cause Courts
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> 7. Provincial Small Cause Courts.-The following provisions shall not extend to Courts
constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887) 4[or under the Berar Small
Cause Courts Law, 1905], or to Courts exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes 5[under the
said Act or Law], 6[or to Courts in 7[any part of India to which the said Act does not extend] exercising 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 8[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 referred to in clause (e) of section 94], and sections 96 to 112
and 115.

1. Clause (21) omitted by Act 2 of 1951, s. 4, earlier clause (21) ins. by the A.O. 1950.
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the G.G. in C", omitted by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and the First Sch. Pt. I.
3. The words "with the sanction aforesaid" omitted by s. 2 and the First Sch. Pt. I, ibid.
4. Ins. by Act 4 of 1941, s. 2 and the Third Sch.
5. Subs. by s. 2 and the Third Sch., ibid., for "under that Act".
6. Ins. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 5 (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).
7. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
8. Subs. by Act 1 of 1926, s. 3, for "so far as they relate to injunctions and interlocutory orders" .
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8. Presidency Small Cause Courts.-Save as provided in sections 24, 38 to 41, 75, clauses (a), (b)
and (c), 76, 1[77, 157 and 158], and by the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), the
provisions in the body of this Code shall not extend to any suit or proceeding in any Court of Small
Causes established in the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay:
2[Provided that-
(1) the High Courts of Judicature at Fort William, Madras and Bombay, as the case may be, may
from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct3 that any such provisions not
inconsistent with the express provisions of the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882),
and with such modifications and adaptations as may be specified in the notification, shall extend to suits
or proceedings or any class of suits or proceedings in such Court;
(2) all rules heretofore made by any of the said High Courts under section 9 of the Presidency
Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882) shall be deemed to have been validly made.]
PART I
SUITS IN GENERAL
Jurisdiction of The Courts and res judicata