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CHAPTER I Preliminary

Section 3: Definitions

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1961

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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 this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires,-

(i) "appeal" includes a cross objection;

(ii) "Court" means any Civil, Revenue or Criminal Court and includes a Tribunal or other authority having jurisdiction under any special or local law to decide questions affecting the rights of parties;

(iii) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and

(iv) expressions used and not defined in this Act or in the Rajasthan General Clauses Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 8 of 1955), but defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908), shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the said Code.

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