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If a suit is cognizable by a Court of Small Causes under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887,…

Section 16 bars "any other Court having jurisdiction within the local limits" of the Court of Small Causes from trying a suit cognizable by it. The bar is not limited to the…

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If a suit is cognizable by a Court of Small Causes under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, which court is barred from trying it?

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Section 16 bars "any other Court having jurisdiction within the local limits" of the Court of Small Causes from trying a suit cognizable by it. The bar is not limited to the District Court or to courts of a higher grade, and it is courts inside those local limits, not outside them, that are excluded.

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