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Order XXI Rule 4: Transfer to Court of Small Causes

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where a decree has been passed in a suit of which the value as set forth in the plaint did not exceed two thousand rupees and which, as regards its subject-matter, is not excepted by the law for the title being in force from the cognizance of either a Presidency or a Provincial Court of Small Causes, and the Court which passed it wishes it to be executed in Calcutta, Madras 1[or Bombay], such Court may send to the Court of Small Causes in Calcutta, Madras 1[or Bombay], as the case may be, the copies and certificates mentioned in rule 6; and such Court of Small Causes shall thereupon execute the decree as if it had been passed by itself.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Bombay or Rangoon”.

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