https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289014 For court-fee purposes, the substance of the plaint as a whole controls, not the form of the prayer clause. A declaration that property is wakf is purely declaratory, but a further request that alienations by mutwallis be declared null and void and ineffectual in substance seeks cancellation of those alienations. Such relief is not merely consequential under Section 7(iv)(c) of the Court-fees Act, because it directly affects the alienated property and is separately valuable. The document states that where the relief effectively undoes completed alienations, the suit is not purely declaratory and attracts ad valorem court fee on the value of the alienated property. en-us Mon, 04 Nov 1940 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:20:25 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289014 For court-fee purposes, the substance of the plaint as a whole controls, not the form of the prayer clause. A declaration that property is wakf is purely declaratory, but a further request that alienations by mutwallis be declared null and void and ineffectual in substance seeks cancellation of those alienations. Such relief is not merely consequential under Section 7(iv)(c) of the Court-fees Act, because it directly affects the alienated property and is separately valuable. The document states that where the relief effectively undoes completed alienations, the suit is not purely declaratory and attracts ad valorem court fee on the value of the alienated property. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 Nov 1940 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289014