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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Preliminary

Section 7: Provincial Small Cause Courts

The following provisions shall not extend to Courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887(9 of 1887) [or under the Berar Small Cause Courts Law, 1905,] or to Courts exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes [under the said Act or Law,] [or to Courts in [any part of India to which the said Act does not extend] exercising a a corresponding jurisdiction that is to say.—

(a) so much of the body of the Code as relates to]—

(i) suits excepted from the cognizance of a Court of Small Causes;

(ii) the execution of decrees in such suits;

(iii) the execution of decrees against immovable property; and

(b) the following sections, that is to say,—

section 9,

sections 91 and 92,

sections 94 and 95 [so far as they authorize or relate to]—

(i) orders for the attachment of immovable property,

(ii) injunctions,

(iii) the appointment of a receiver of immovable property, or

(iv) the interlocutory orders to in clause (e) of section 94,] and sections 96 to 112 and 115.

Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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