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Definition :

District Judge, includes, among other, an additional district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi AIR 1966 SC 447: (1966) 1 SCR 771.

See State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616.

District Judge shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original Jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(17)]

--Means the Judge of a principal civil court of original jurisdiction. [Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2(bb)]