The Jhansi and Morar Act, 1886, 17 of 1886, (Rep., Act 42 of 1953)

Section 10. (1) Any person who at the date of the cession of the cantonment of Morar was entitled to institute i

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(3) In computing the period of limitation for any suit or application referred to in this section, the time which has elapsed between the date of the cession of the cantonment of Morar and the commencement of this Act shall be excluded. (2) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment or notification to the contrary, any Civil Court at Jhánsí or Agra, or other place aforesaid, in which any such suit or application as is referred to in sub-section (1) is instituted or made shall, subject to the provisions of that sub-section, have jurisdiction to dispose of it. PART III. AND whereas it is expedient that traders and others who were entitled immediately before the cession of the 176 Jhánsí and Morar. [ACT XVII the cantonment of Morar to institute certain suits in, or make applications for or with respect to the execution of certain decrees to, a Civil Court at Morar should be enabled to institute those suits in, and make those applications to, the Civil Courts at Jhánsí and Agra, and at any other place from time to time appointed in this behalf by the Governor General in Council, and that the period of limitation in these cases should be extended; It is hereby further enacted as follows:— Suits for debt formerly cognizable in a Morar Court to be cognizable in Courts at certain other places. 10. (1) Any person who at the date of the cession of the cantonment of Morar was entitled to institute in a Civil Court at Morar a suit of any of the descriptions referred to in articles 50 to 54 (both inclusive) or articles 56 to 64 (both inclusive) or articles 66 to 75 (both inclusive) of the second schedule to the Indian Limitation Act, 1877, or to make to any such Court an application for or with respect to the execution of a decree in any such suit, may institute the suit or make the application in any Civil Court at Jhánsí or Agra, or other place appointed in that behalf by the Governor General in Council, which would have jurisdiction in the suit to be instituted, or, as the case may be, would have had jurisdiction in the suit in which the decree to be executed was passed, if the cause of action had arisen within the local limits of its jurisdiction.

Source: India Code