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.
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