Preamble1 - PRESIDENCY SMALL CAUSE COURTS ACT, 1882
Chapter I Section1 - PRELIMINARY
Section2 - [Repealed]
Section3 - [Repealed]
Section4 - Small Cause Court and Registrar defined
Chapter II Section5 - Courts of Small Causes established
Section6 - Court to be deemed under superintendence, etc., of High Court
Section7 - Appointment of Judges
Section8 - Rank and precedence of Judges
Section8A - Performance of duties of absent Judge
Section9 - Procedure and practice of Small Cause Court
Section10 - Chief Judge to distribute business of Court
Section11 - Procedure in case of difference of opinion
Section12 - Seal to be used
Section13 - Appointment of Registrar and other officers
Section14 - Registrar may be invested with powers of a Judge in suits not exceeding twenty rupees
Section15 - Judge or other officer not to practise or trade
Chapter III Section16 - Questions arising in suits, etc., under Act to be decided according to law administered by High Court
Chapter IV Section17 - Local limits of jurisdiction of Court
Section18 - Suits in which Court has jurisdiction
Section18A - Plaintiff may abandon suit against defendant resident out of jurisdiction
Section19 - Suits in which Court has no jurisdiction
Section19A - Return of plaint
Section20 - Court may by consent try suits beyond pecuniary limits of jurisdiction
Section21 - Suits by and against officers of Court
Section22 - Costs when plaintiff sues in High Court in other cases cognizable by Small Cause Court
Chapter V Section23 - [Repealed]
Section24 - No written statement except in cases of set off
Section25 - Return of documents admitted in evidence
Section26 - Compensation payable by plaintiff to defendant in certain cases
Section27 - Decree-holder to accompany officer executing warrant
Section28 - Things attached to immovable property and removable by tenant to be deemed movable in execution
Section29 - Discharge of judgment-debtor on sufficient security
Section30 - Court may in certain cases suspend execution of decree
Section31 - Execution of decree of Small Cause Court by other Courts
Section32 - Minors may sue in certain cases as if of full age
Section33 - Power to delegate non-judicial duties
Section34 - Registrar to hear and determine suits like a Judge
Section35 - Registrar may execute all Decrees with the same powers as a Judge
Section36 - Decrees and orders of Registrar to be subject to new trial as if made by a Judge
ChapterVI - NEW TRIALS AND APPEALSS NEW TRIALS AND APPEALSS NEW TRIALS AND APPEALSS NEW TRIALS AND APPEALSS
Section37 - General finality of decrees and orders of Small Cause Court
Section38 - New trial of contested cases
Section39 - Removal of certain causes into High Court
Section40 - Rules with respect to suits removed under the last foregoing section
Chapter VII Section41 - Summons against person occupying property without leave
Section42 - Service of summons
Section43 - Order for possession
Section44 - Such order to justify bailiff entering on property and giving possession.Bar to proceedings against Judge or officer for issuing, etc., order or summons
Section45 - Applicant, if entitled to possession, not to be deemed trespasser for any error in proceedings.Occupant may sue for compensation
Section46 - Liability of applicant obtaining order when not entitled
Section47 - Stay of proceedings on occupant giving security to bring suit against applicant
Section48 - Proceedings to be regulated by Code of Civil Procedure
Section49 - Recovery of possession no bar to suit to try title
Chapter VIII Section50 - Local extent of Chapter.Saving of certain rents
Section51 - Appointment of bailiffs and appraisers
Section52 - Appointees to be public servants
Section53 - Application for distress-warrant
Section54 - Issue of distress-warrant
Section55 - Time for distress
Section56 - What places bailiff may force open
Section57 - Property which may be seized
Section58 - Impounding distress
Section59 - Inventory.Notice of intended appraisement and sale
Section60 - Application to discharge or suspend warrant
Section61 - Claim to goods distrained made by a stranger
Section62 - Power to award compensation to debtor or claimant
Section63 - Power to transfer to High Court cases involving more than one thousand rupees
Section64 - Appraisement.Notice of sale
Section65 - Sale.Application of proceeds
Section66 - Costs of distresses
Section67 - Account of costs and proceeds
Section68 - Bar of distresses except under this Chapter
Chapter IX Section69 - Reference when compulsory
Section70 - Security to be furnished on such reference by party against whom contingent judgment given
Chapter X Section71 - Institution-fee
Section72 - Fees for processes
Section73 - Repayment of half fees on settlement before hearing
Section74 - Fees and costs of poor persons
Section75 - Power to vary fees
Section76 - Expense of employing legal practitioners
Section77 - Sections 3, 5 and 25 of Court-fees Act, 1870, saved
Chapter XI Section78 - [Repealed ]
Section79 - Default of bailiff or other officer in execution of order or warrant
Section80 - Extortion or default of officers
Section81 - Court empowered to summon witnesses, etc
Section82 - Enforcement of order
Chapter XII Section83 - [Repealed]
Section84 - [Repealed]
Section85 - [Repealed]
Section86 - [Repealed]
Section87 - Imprisonment or committal of person refusing to answer or produce document
Section88 - Appeal from orders under section 87
Chapter XIII Section89 - Persons by whom process may be served
Section90 - Registers and returns
Section91 - Court to furnish records, etc., called for by State Government or High Court
Section92 - Holidays and vacations
Section93 - Certain persons exempt from arrest by Court
Section94 - No suit to lie upon decree of Court
Section95 - Place of imprisonment
Section96 - Tender in suit for anything done under Act
Section97 - Limitation of prosecutions
Schedule1 - FIRST SCHEDULE
Schedule2 - SECOND SCHEDUL
Schedule3 - THIRD SCHEDULE
Schedule4 - FOURTH SCHEDULE