{"id":269930,"date":"1917-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1917-01-07T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ratan-singh-vs-khem-karan-on-8-january-1917-2"},"modified":"2017-10-03T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T02:33:16","slug":"ratan-singh-vs-khem-karan-on-8-january-1917-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ratan-singh-vs-khem-karan-on-8-january-1917-2","title":{"rendered":"Ratan Singh vs Khem Karan on 8 January, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ratan Singh vs Khem Karan on 8 January, 1917<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 44 Ind Cas 608<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Tudball<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Tudball<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Tudball, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. This is an appeal in a suit brought by the appellant for a declaration, under Section 95 of the Tenancy Act, that he has occupancy rights in a certain holding. The suit is purely a declaratory suit. The question is, what is the Court-fee payable on the appeal. Prima facie the suit falls clearly within Schedule II, <a href=\"\/doc\/1937835\/\" id=\"a_1\">Article 5<\/a>, of the <a href=\"\/doc\/138097064\/\" id=\"a_1\">Court Fees Act<\/a>, which lays down that on a plaint or memorandum of appeal in a suit to establish or disprove a right of occupancy a Court fee of eight annas should be paid. The only difficulty in the case arises by reason of two previous Judges of this Court having in similar cases directed that a fee of Rs. 10 was &#8216;payable. In neither of these decisions was Schedule II, <a href=\"\/doc\/1937835\/\" id=\"a_2\">Article 5<\/a>, apparently considered. The suit is not one to which <a href=\"\/doc\/1987997\/\" id=\"a_3\">Article 17 (iii)<\/a> Schedule II, of the <a href=\"\/doc\/138097064\/\" id=\"a_4\">Court Fees Act<\/a> is applicable. As I have said above, it is purely a declaratory suit, and nothing more, in which the plaintiff seeks to establish that he has a right of occupancy. In my opinion the law is plain and the appeal is governed by Schedule II, <a href=\"\/doc\/1937835\/\" id=\"a_5\">Article 5<\/a>, of the <a href=\"\/doc\/138097064\/\" id=\"a_6\">Court Fees Act<\/a> and the Court-fee payable is eight annas according thereto. I so direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Ratan Singh vs Khem Karan on 8 January, 1917 Equivalent citations: 44 Ind Cas 608 Author: Tudball Bench: Tudball JUDGMENT Tudball, J. 1. This is an appeal in a suit brought by the appellant for a declaration, under Section 95 of the Tenancy Act, that he has occupancy rights in a certain [&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-269930","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 v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ratan Singh vs Khem Karan on 8 January, 1917 - 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\/ratan-singh-vs-khem-karan-on-8-january-1917-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ratan Singh vs Khem Karan on 8 January, 1917 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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