{"id":200509,"date":"1930-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1930-01-01T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chaube-munna-lal-vs-ram-chandra-and-ors-on-2-january-1930"},"modified":"2019-03-04T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T23:18:38","slug":"chaube-munna-lal-vs-ram-chandra-and-ors-on-2-january-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chaube-munna-lal-vs-ram-chandra-and-ors-on-2-january-1930","title":{"rendered":"Chaube Munna Lal vs Ram Chandra And Ors. on 2 January, 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Chaube Munna Lal vs Ram Chandra And Ors. on 2 January, 1930<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 122 Ind Cas 188<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Mukerji, Bennet<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. This is a reference under Order XLVI, Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure made by the learned Subordinate Judge of Mainpuri in regard to an application made to him for a refund of Rs. 10 Court-fee excess paid by inadvertence. The applicant had paid Rs. 195 Court-fee on a plaint, by an arithmetical error, apparently, for Rs. 185. The learned Subordinate Judge was in doubt as to whether he could issue a certificate under Ch. XVII, Rule 28 of the General Rules (Civil) for Courts subordinate to the High Court. His doubt arose because of a letter No. 2541-VS 273B, dated the 18th of December, 1926, from the Registrar of the Board of Revenue, U. P., to the Collector of Mainpuri, stating in a similar case that the refund was not allowable unless there was a special hardship which might be referred to Government, and returning a certificate of the Subordinate Judge of Mainpuri.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. We have heard the learned Government Advocate on behalf of the Revenue Authorities. The applicant has not been represented. It is clear that there is no specific section of the Court Pees Act or any specific rule under which such a refund can be ordered by a Civil Court. The question is whether the Civil Court should resort to its inherent power under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code, treating this as an order necessary for the ends of justice. We consider that the applicant ought in justice to receive the Rs. 10 excess which he has paid by inadvertence. If the applicant had paid too small an amount, the Court would have recovered the necessary deficiency from him. This subject has come before the Courts for a number of years and the earliest case is reported in In the matter of Mr. G. H, Grant 14 W.R. 47, in which a refund of excess duty paid by inadvertence on an appeal was ordered by the High Court, In Hari Ear Guru v. Ananda Mahanty 20 Ind. Cas. 498 : 40 C. 365 the High Court directed the taxing officer to issue a certificate to enable an applicant to obtain a refund of excess Court-fee paid. Similarly in Chandra Hari Singh v. Tipan Prosad Singh 46 Ind. Cas. 271 : 3 P.L.J. 452 : (1918) Pat. 273, the Patna High Court acting under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code, held that the Courts have inherent power to pass orders directing the refund of excess Court-fee paid by mistake.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. We agree with the view held by the Calcutta High Court and the Patna High Court and accordingly we hold that under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code, the Subordinate Courts have power to issue certificates directing the refund of Court-fees paid in excess by inadvertence.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. Accordingly we return this reference to the learned Subordinate Judge with the direction that he should issue the necessary certificate. No order is required as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Chaube Munna Lal vs Ram Chandra And Ors. on 2 January, 1930 Equivalent citations: 122 Ind Cas 188 Bench: Mukerji, Bennet JUDGMENT 1. This is a reference under Order XLVI, Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure made by the learned Subordinate Judge of Mainpuri in regard to an application made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chaube Munna Lal vs Ram Chandra And Ors. on 2 January, 1930 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chaube-munna-lal-vs-ram-chandra-and-ors-on-2-january-1930\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chaube Munna Lal vs Ram Chandra And Ors. on 2 January, 1930 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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