{"id":7208,"date":"1950-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1950-01-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kamakshya-narain-singh-vs-the-province-of-bihar-on-9-january-1950"},"modified":"2015-09-25T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T06:08:40","slug":"kamakshya-narain-singh-vs-the-province-of-bihar-on-9-january-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kamakshya-narain-singh-vs-the-province-of-bihar-on-9-january-1950","title":{"rendered":"Kamakshya Narain Singh vs The Province Of Bihar on 9 January, 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kamakshya Narain Singh vs The Province Of Bihar on 9 January, 1950<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1950 Pat 316<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Reuben, Jamuar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p> 1. The question which arises in this case is as to the correct court-fee payable on the plaint. The plaintiff appellant sued for a declaration that the Private Forests Act, 1946 (Bihar Act, in [3] of 1946) is ultra vires and for an injunction restraining the Provincial Government from taking over the management of the forests of his estate under the said Act. In his plaint he valued the prayer for perpetual injunction at Rs. 5,100 and paid court fee thereon. He also paid a court-fee of Rs. 18-12-0 for the declaration sought, and added the sentence: &#8216;The value of the suit for the purpose of jurisdiction is laid at Rs. 1,00000 (Rupees one lakh) which is within the pecuniary jurisdiction of this Court.&#8221; It is contended by the Stamp Reporter that under the provisions of Section 8, Suits Valuation Act, the valuation of the suit for purposes of jurisdiction and for court-fee should be the same, and that; therefore, the ad valorem court fee should be charged on the higher valuation which the plaintiff himself has put upon the suit.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. It appears to us that this case is on all fours with the case of Gobinda v. Hanmaya, 45 Bom. 567: (A. I. R. (8) 1921 Bom. 65) in which their Lordships of the Bombay High Court accepted the lower valuation which was mentioned in the plaint, pointing out that under Section 7, Clause (iv), Court-fees Act, the plaintiff was entitled to value the relief sought by him and a further statement as to the value for the purposes of jurisdiction was unnecessary. Our attention has been drawn to Manni Lal v. Radhe Gopalji, 47 ALL 501: (A. I. R. (12) 1925 ALL. 602), in which Piggott J. in a similar case held that a court-fee should be charged on the sum total of the two valuations mentioned by the plaintiff. That was a case in which his Lordship was of the opinion that the value put upon the injunction sought was a nominal one. We are not prepared in the present case to say this of the<br \/>\nvaluation put by the plaintiff on his prayer for an<br \/>\ninjunction. The decision in substance is to our<br \/>\nmind in support of the plaintiff in the present<br \/>\ncase. His Lordship pointed out that under the<br \/>\nprovisions of Section 7, Court fees Act, read with Section 8,<br \/>\nSuits Valuation Act, the valuation for purposes<br \/>\nof the court fees is to be determined first and that<br \/>\nfor purposes of jurisdiction must follow the valuation thus determined. Section 7 (iv) (c) requires<br \/>\nthe plaintiff to state the amount at which he values<br \/>\nthe relief sought. This has been done in the present case, the valuation put on the relief being<br \/>\nRs. 5,100. Section 8, Suits Valuation Act, provides<br \/>\nthat the value as determinate for the computation of court fees and the value for purposes of<br \/>\njurisdiction shall be the same. It follows, there<br \/>\nfore, that Rs. 5,100 is the correct valuation of<br \/>\nthe suit for purposes of jurisdiction. The statement in the plaint that the value of the suit for<br \/>\npurposes of jurisdiction is laid at RS. 1,00,000 was,<br \/>\ntherefore, uncalled for. Apparently this valuation was for the declaration sought. It gives the<br \/>\nvaluation of the property and was unnecessary<br \/>\nand should be ignored. Let the court-fees paid<br \/>\non the plaint be accepted as sufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court Kamakshya Narain Singh vs The Province Of Bihar on 9 January, 1950 Equivalent citations: AIR 1950 Pat 316 Bench: Reuben, Jamuar ORDER 1. The question which arises in this case is as to the correct court-fee payable on the plaint. The plaintiff appellant sued for a declaration that the Private Forests Act, [&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":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kamakshya Narain Singh vs The Province Of Bihar on 9 January, 1950 - 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\/kamakshya-narain-singh-vs-the-province-of-bihar-on-9-january-1950\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kamakshya Narain Singh vs The Province Of Bihar on 9 January, 1950 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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