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Issues: Whether a judgment of a Court of Small Causes deciding a suit must state the grounds of the decision and be sufficiently intelligible to enable revisional scrutiny under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act.
Analysis: Section 2(9) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 defines a judgment as the statement of the grounds of a decree or order. Order 20, Rule 4 of the Code permits a Small Cause Court judgment to be brief, but not to the point of omitting the reasons altogether. A decree or order subject to revision must disclose at least some reasons, however short, so that the High Court can see whether the decision is according to law. Where the points for determination involve mixed questions of law and fact, a bare recital of findings without indicating the reasoning is insufficient and does not show that the judge applied his mind to the issues.
Conclusion: The impugned Small Cause Court order was not a judgment in the eye of law and was not in accordance with law.
Final Conclusion: The revision was allowed, the judgment of the court below was set aside, and the matter was remitted for fresh decision according to law.
Ratio Decidendi: A Small Cause Court judgment may be concise, but it must still state intelligible grounds showing the basis of the decision, especially where revisional review depends on knowing how mixed questions of law and fact were resolved.
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