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Punjab Courts Act Question 1:
Under section 30 of Punjab courts Act 1918, What action can the District Judge take regarding proceedings transferred to a Civil Judge?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 1 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 2.Key Points
- Section 30 of Punjab Courts Act 1918 deals with exercise by Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)] of jurisdiction of District Court in certain proceedings.
- The High Court may by general or special order authorise any Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division) to take cognizance of, or any District Judge to transfer to a Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)] under his control, any of the proceedings next hereinafter mentioned or any class of those proceedings specified in such order.
- (2) The proceedings referred to in sub-section (1) are the following, namely :-
- Proceedings under the Indian Succession Act, 1865, and the Probate and Administration Act, 1881 , which cannot be disposed of by the District Judge.
- (3) The District Judge may withdraw any such proceedings taken cognizance of by or transferred to a Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division) and may either himself dispose of them or transfer them to a Court under his control competent to dispose of them.
- (4) Proceedings taken cognizance of by or transferred to a [Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)] as the case may be under this section shall be disposed of by him, subject to the rules applicable to like proceedings when disposed of by the District Judge.
Punjab Courts Act Question 2:
What powers does an Additional District Judge have when assigned functions of the District Judge?
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The correct answer is option 3.Key Points
- Section 21A of Punjab courts Act 1918 deals with assignment of functions of District Judge.
- The High Court or the District Judge may assign to an Additional District Judge any of the functions of the District Judge, including the functions of receiving and registering cases and appeals, which but for such assignment of functions could be instituted in the Court of the District Judge, and in the discharge of those functions the Additional District Judge shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Act, exercise the same powers as the District Judge.
Punjab Courts Act Question 3:
What power does Section 34 grant to the District Judge, under Punjab courts Act 1918 ?
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The correct answer is option 2.Key Points
- Section 34 of Punjab Courts Act 1918 deals with power to distribute business.
- Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Civil Procedure, every District Judge may by written order direct that any civil business cognizable by his Court and the Courts under his control shall be distributed among such Courts in such manner as he thinks fit:
- Provided that no direction issued under this section shall empower any Court to exercise any powers of ideal with any business beyond the limits of its jurisdiction.
Punjab Courts Act Question 4:
What authority does the State Government hold according to Section 28 of the Punjab Courts Act 1918?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 4 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 1.Key Points
- Section 28 of Punjab Courts Act 1918 deals with special Judges and benches.
- (1) The State Government may after consultation with the High Court appoint any person to be an Honorary [Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)], and the High Court may confer on such Judge all or any of the powers conferable under this Act on a [Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)] with respect to particular classes of suits or with respect to suits or with respect to suits generally in any local area.]
- (2) The State Government may direct any uneven number of persons invested with powers of the same description and exercisable within the same local area under this section to sit together as a bench; those powers shall, while the direction remains in force, be exercised by the bench so constituted, and not otherwise.
- (3) The decision of the majority of the members of a bench constituted under this section shall be deemed to be the decision of the bench.
- (4) Persons on whom powers are conferred under this section and the benches constituted under this section shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to be [Civil Judges (Senior Division) and Civil Judges (Junior Division)]
Punjab Courts Act Question 5:
Who has the authority to determine the location of the court proceedings according to Section 31?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 5 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 1.Key Points
- Section 31 of Punjab Courts Act 1918 deals with place of sitting of Court.
- The High Court may fix the place or places at which any Court under this Part is to be held.
- The place or places so fixed may be beyond the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court.
- Except as may be otherwise provided by any order under this section, a Court under this Part may be held at any place within the local limits of its jurisdiction.
Punjab Courts Act Question 6:
What happens to appeals pending in the High Court from decrees or orders of Civil Judges under section 39?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 6 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 2.Key Points
- Section 39 of punjab Courts Act 1914 deals with appeals from Subordinate Judges—.
- (1) Save as aforesaid, as appeal from a decree or order of a Subordinate Judge shall lie:
- (a) To the District Judge:
- (i) Where the decree or order was made before the extension of the Punjab Courts (Amendment) Act, 1963 to the Union Territory of Delhi and the value of the original suit in which the decree or order was made did not exceed five thousand rupees, or
- (ii) Where the decree or order is made after the extension of the Punjab Courts (Amendment) Act, 1963 to the Union Territory of Delhi and the value of the original suit in which the decree or order is made does not exceed ten thousand rupees, or
- (iii) Where the decree or order is made after the commencement of the Delhi High Court (Amendment) Act, 1991 and the value of the original suit in which the decree or order is made does not exceed rupees one lakh; or
- (iv) Where the decree or order is made after the commencement of the Delhi High Court (Amendment) Act, 2003 and the value of the original suit, in which the decree or order is made does not exceed rupees three lakh; and
- (b) to the High Court in any other case.
- Subject to the provisions of sub-section 2A, an appeal to the Court or the District Judge shall be heard by the District Judge or by an Additional District Judge.
- (2A) An Additional District Judge shall hear only such appeals as the High Court, by general or special order may direct or as the District Judge of the District may make over to him.
- (3) The High Court may by notification direct that appeals lying to the district Court from all or any of the decrees or orders passed in an original suit by any Subordinate Judge shall be preferred to such other Subordinate Judge as may be mentioned in the notification, and the appeals shall thereupon be preferred accordingly and the Court of such other Subordinate Judge shall be deemed to be a District Court for the purpose of all appeals so preferred.
Punjab Courts Act Question 7:
What is the primary purpose of the Act described in the Punjab Courts Act 1914 preamble?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 7 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 4.
Key Points
- Preamble of Punjab Courts Act 1914 says an Act to validate all things done under the Punjab Courts Act, 1914, as amended by Punjab Act 4 of 1914, to repeal the said Acts or so much of them as may be valid and to enact a law relating to Courts in the Punjab; which is free from the defect described in the preamble
Punjab Courts Act Question 8:
In what situation is a second appeal not allowed according to section 42 of Punjab Courts Act 1918.?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 8 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 1.Key Points
- Section 42 of Punjab courts Act 1918 deals with second appeal on no other grounds.
- No second appeal shall lie except on grounds mentioned in section 41.
- No second appeal shall lie in any suit of nature cognizable by Courts of Small Causes when the amount or value of the subject-matter of the original suit does not exceed three thousand rupees.
Additional Information
- Section 41 of criminal procedure code 1973 deals with second appeals.
- (1) An appeal shall lie to the High Court from every decree passed in appeal by any Court subordinate to the High Court on any of the following grounds, namely :-
- The decision being contrary to law or to some custom or usage having the force of law;
- The decision having failed to determine some material issue of law or custom or usage having the force of law;
- A substantial error or defect in the procedure provided by the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 or by any other law for the time being in force which may possibly have produced error or defect in the decision of the case upon the merits.
- Explanation. - A question relating to the existence of validity of a custom or usage shall be deemed to be a question of law within the meaning of this section.
- (2) An appeal may lie under this section from an appellate decree passed ex- parte.
Punjab Courts Act Question 9:
Who has the ultimate authority over altering the limits or the number of the districts?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 9 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 3.Key Points
- Section 19 of Punjab courts Act 1914 deals with civil districts.
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(1) For the purposes of this Part the State Government shall divide the territories under its administration into civil districts.(2) The State Government may alter the limits or the number of these districts.
Additional Information
- Section 18 of Punjab courts Act 1914 deals with classes of Courts.
- It says besides the Courts of Small Causes established under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, and the Courts established under any other enactment for the time being in force, there shall be the following classes of Civil Courts, namely:
- The Court of the District Judge;
- The Court of the Subordinate Judge;
Punjab Courts Act Question 10:
Will a question relating to the existence of validity of a custom or usage be deemed to be a question of law within the meaning Section 41?
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Punjab Courts Act Question 10 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 1.
Key Points
- Section 41 provides Second appeals. -
- (1) An appeal shall lie to the High Court from every decree passed in appeal by any Court subordinate to the High Court on any of the following grounds, namely :-
- (a) the decision being contrary to law or to some custom or usage having the force of law;
- (b) the decision having failed to determine some material issue of law or custom or usage having the force of law;
- (c) a substantial error or defect in the procedure provided by the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 or by any other law for the time being in force which may possibly have produced error or defect in the decision of the case upon the merits.
- Explanation. - A question relating to the existence of validity of a custom or usage shall be deemed to be a question of law within the meaning of this section.
- (2) An appeal may lie under this section from an appellate decree passed ex- parte.