In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
         (i) "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of Manipur;
         (ii) "civil suit" includes every suit of a civil nature not expressly or impliedly classed otherwise by any law for the time being in force;
         (iii) "district court" means the court of the district judge and includes the court of the additional district judge;
         (iv) "hill areas" mean such areas in the hill tracts of the ¹ [Union territory of Manipur] as the Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be hill areas;
         (v) "small cause suit" means a suit of the nature cognizable by a court of small causes under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887(9 of 1887);
         (vi) "value" in relation to a suit means the amount or value of the subject-matter of the suit.