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High Court, means any court which is deemed for the purposes of this Constitution to be a High Court for any State and includes--

(a) any Court in the territory of India constituted or reconstituted under this Constitution as a High Court, and

(b) any other Court in the territory of India which may be declared by Parliament by law to be a High Court for all or any of the purposes of this Con-stitution. [Constitution of India, Article 366(14)]

The High Court in s. 10F of the Companies Act means the High Court having jurisdiction in relation to the place at which the registered office of the company concerned is situate as indicated by s. 2(11) read with s. 10(1) (a) of the Act, Strideuell Leathers (P) Ltd. v. Bhankepur Simbhaoli Beverages Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 158 (165): (1994) 1 SCC 34. (Companies Act, 1956, s. 10F)

Every High Court shall be a Court of record meaning thereby all the original record of the Court will be preserved by the said Court and it shall have all the powers of such a superior Court of record including the power to punish for contempt of itself. It has to be kept in view that as a superior Court of record the High Court is entitled to preserve its original record in perpetuity. It is also now well settled that even apart from the aforesaid attribute of a superior Court of record the High Court as such has two fold powers. Being a Court of record the High Court (i) has power to determine the question about its own jurisdiction; and (ii) has inherent power to punish for its contempt summarily, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad v. Raj Kishore Yadav, AIR 1997 SC 1186 (1190): (1997) 3 SCC 11. (Constitution of India, Article 215)

Means the High Court for a State. [Supreme Court (Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 (41 of 1958), s. 2(d)]

High Court, shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (i) of section 2 of the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), the Designs Act, 2000, s. 2(e).