TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1929 (7) TMI 6
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.... Maharaja of Dumraon instituted a rent suit in the Third Court of the Munsif at Arrah on the 10th of September, 1928. On the 5th of April following the defendant took an objection that the suit was not within the jurisdiction of the Munsif, because by the arrangements for the distribution of business which have been made by the District Judge acting under Sub-section (2) of Section 13 of the Benga....
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....ss cognizable by the Munsif as he thinks fit, is a rule which has the effect of limiting the jurisdiction of the Munsif to entertain plaints; that is to say, the Local Government's notification fixes the local limits of the jurisdiction which it is within the power of the District Judge to assign, but the jurisdiction of a Munsif is actually limited to the area assigned to him by the District ....
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.... which is conferred by the notification which is issued by the Local Government when the Munsif is posted to the district. Ordinarily jurisdiction over the whole district is conferred upon a Munsif when he is posted to the Sadr Station; and the jurisdiction is never limited to an area less than that of the Munsif to which he is posted. There may be for administrative convenience an arrangement by ....
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....ge's Court, the Courts are locally known as the Courts of the first or second or third Subordinate Judge. But this local description means no more than that the first Subordinate Judge sits in Court No. 1, the second Subordinate Judge in Court No. 2. Each Subordinate Judge has concurrent jurisdiction over the whole district to which he is appointed. 5. In the case with which we are here conce....