{"id":251340,"date":"1882-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1882-05-04T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnusami-chetti-vs-krishna-ayyan-on-5-may-1882"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T09:10:47","slug":"ponnusami-chetti-vs-krishna-ayyan-on-5-may-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnusami-chetti-vs-krishna-ayyan-on-5-may-1882","title":{"rendered":"Ponnusami Chetti vs Krishna Ayyan on 5 May, 1882"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ponnusami Chetti vs Krishna Ayyan on 5 May, 1882<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1882) ILR 5 Mad 222<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: K Charles Turner<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: C A Turner, Kt., Innes, Kernan, Kindersley, M Ayyar<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Charles A. Turner, Kt., C.J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. The point of law raised in this petition is one on which we arrive at a conclusion not without some hesitation.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">2. The power conferred on the then existing Zila Courts by Madras Regulation III of 1802 was, on the abolition of those Courts, transferred by Act VII of 1843 to the Subordinate Judges and Principal Sadr Amins appointed under Regulations I and II and VII and VIII of 1827.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">3. Subordinate Judges appointed under The Madras Civil Courts&#8217; Act, 1873, are empowered by that Act to exercise jurisdiction in all suits and proceedings of a civil nature. These terms appear sufficiently large to confer on them not only the general jurisdiction but also any special jurisdiction which had theretofore been exercised by the Subordinate Judges and Principal Sadr Amins whom they superseded, and which, at the time of the passing of the Civil Courts&#8217; Act, was still subsisting. The remedy was not taken away, and it is reasonable to infer an intention that the jurisdiction should be administered by the same class of Courts as had theretofore exercised it.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">4. The objection that the Subordinate Judge had no jurisdiction to entertain the complaint is unsustainable, and we cannot question the propriety of his order on the merits, there being evidence to support it.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_5\">5. We must, therefore, reject this application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Ponnusami Chetti vs Krishna Ayyan on 5 May, 1882 Equivalent citations: (1882) ILR 5 Mad 222 Author: K Charles Turner Bench: C A Turner, Kt., Innes, Kernan, Kindersley, M Ayyar JUDGMENT Charles A. Turner, Kt., C.J. 1. 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