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CHAPTER IV Computation of Fee.

Section 27: Suits relating to trust property

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1961

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 19 of 2009.

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act No. 11 of 2020) substitutes section 21, which now caps the fee in a suit for damages for defamation at twenty five thousand rupees; not shown in this text.

Schedules I, II and III are also published by India Code as separate files.

In a suit for possession or joint possession of trust property or for a declaratory decree, whether with or without consequential relief in respect of it, between trustees or rival claimants to the office of trustee or between a trustee and a person who has ceased to be a trustee, fee shall be computed on one-fifth of the market value of the property subject to a maximum fee of rupees two hundred or where the property has no market value, on rupees one thousand:

Provided that where the property does not have a market value, value for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of Courts shall be such amount as the plaintiff shall state in the plaint.

Explanation.- For the purpose of this section, property comprised in a Hindu, Muslim or other religious or charitable endowment shall be deemed to be trust property and the manager of any such property shall be deemed to be the trustee thereof.

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