Section VII

VII. And it is enacted, that if any person shall after the passing of this Act print or cause to be printed either for sale or exportation, any book in which there shall be subsisting Copyright without the consent in writing of the proprietor thereof, or shall have in his possession for sale or hire any such book so unlawfully printed without such consent as aforesaid, such offender if he shall have so offended within the local limits of the jurisdiction of any of the Court of Judicature established by Her Majesty's Charter, shall be liable to a special action on the case in such Court, and if he shall have so offended in any other part of the Territories subject to the Government of the East India Company to a suit in the Zillah Court within the jurisdiction of which he shall have so offender, which shall and may be prosecuted in the same manner in which any other action of damages may be brought and prosecuted there, and if he shall have so offended in any such last mentioned part of the Territories subject to the Government of the East India Company in which there is no Zillah Court, to a suit in the highest local Court exercising original Civil jurisdiction in such part of the said Territories.