Section 3
Constitution of the City Court.
The Madras City Civil Court Act, 1892
About this Act
An Act to establish an additional Civil Court for the City of Madras
The Local Government may, by notification in the official
Gazette, establish a Court, to be called the Madras City Civil Court, with jurisdiction to receive, try and
dispose of all suits and other proceedings of a civil nature not exceeding two thousand five hundred
rupees in value and arising within the City of Madras, except suits or proceedings which are cognizable—
(a) by the High Court as a Court of Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty or as a Colonial Court of Admiralty, or as a Court having testamentary, intestate or matrimonial jurisdiction, or
(b) by the Court for the relief of inso0lvent debtors, or
(c) by the Small Cause Court.
(a) by the High Court as a Court of Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty or as a Colonial Court of Admiralty, or as a Court having testamentary, intestate or matrimonial jurisdiction, or
(b) by the Court for the relief of inso0lvent debtors, or
(c) by the Small Cause Court.