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Section 4: Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts in their extraordinary jurisdiction

The Court-Fee ACT, 1870Union territory Act of Delhi · Act 7 of 1870

No document of any of the kinds specified in the First or Second Schedule to this Act annexed, as chargeable with fees, shall be filed, exhibited or recorded or shall be received or furnished by, any of the said High Courts in any case coming before such Court in the exercise of its extraordinary original civil jurisdiction;

or in the exercise of its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction;

In their appellate jurisdiction.--or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the 1[judgments (other than judgments passed in the exercise of ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the Court) or one] or more Judges of the said Court, or of a Division Court;

or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the Courts subject its superintendence;

As Courts of reference and revision.--or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as Court of reference or revision;

unless in respect of such document there be paid a fee of an amount not less than that indicated by either of the said Schedules as the proper fee for such document COMMENTS It has been held that a final decree for future mesne profits passed under Order XX rule 12(2) CPC is like an award and does not amount to a decree under section 2(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and is not a decree as stipulated under Schedule II of the Act. Diwan Brothers v. Central Bank of India, 1976 (2) ALR (SC) Summary.

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ActThe Court-Fee ACT, 1870
Section4
Marginal noteFees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts in their extraordinary jurisdiction
JurisdictionUnion territory of Delhi
StatusIn force as published by the source

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