CHAPTER III FEES IN OTHER COURTS AND IN PUBLIC OFFICES

Section 17: Multifarious suits

Where a suit embraces two or more distinct subjects, the plaint or memorandum of appeal shall be chargeable with the aggregate amount of the fees to which the plaints or memoranda of appeal in suits embracing separately each of such subjects would be liable under this Act.

Nothing in the former part of this section shall be deemed to affect the power conferred by the ¹Code of Civil Procedure, section 9.

Footnotes in the official text

1.See now the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act 5 of 1908).

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1. Under Section 17 of the Court-fees Act, 1870, a plaint in a suit embracing two or more distinct subjects is chargeable with:

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