Section 10 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Stay of suit. 10. Stay of suit.—No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a…
Section 9 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Courts to try all civil suits unless barred. 9. Courts to try all civil suits unless barred.—The Courts shall (subject to the provisions herein contained) have jurisdiction to try all suits…
Section 8 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Presidency Small Cause Courts. 8. Presidency Small Cause Courts.—Save as provided in sections 24, 38 to 41, 75, clauses (a), (b) and (c), 76, 1 [77, 157 and 158], and by…
Section 7 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Provincial Small Cause Courts. 7. Provincial Small Cause Courts.—The following provisions shall not extend to Courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887(9 of 1887) 1 [or under the…
Section 6 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Pecuniary jurisdiction. 6. Pecuniary jurisdiction.—Save in so far as is otherwise expressly provided, nothing herein contained shall operate to give any Court jurisdiction over suits the amount or value of the…
Section 5 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Application of the Code to Revenue Courts. 5. Application of the Code to Revenue Courts.—(1) Where any Revenue Courts are governed by the provisions of this Code in those matters of…
Section 4 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Savings. 4. Savings.— (1) In the absence of any specific provision to the contrary, nothing in this Code shall be deemed to limit or otherwise affect any special or local law…
Section 3 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Subordination of Courts. 3. Subordination of Courts.— For the purposes of this Code, the District Court is subordinate to the High Court, and every Civil Court of a grade inferior to…
Section 2 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Definitions. 2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (1) “Code” includes rules; (2) “decree” means the formal expression of an adjudication which, so far…
Section 1 CPC – Code of Civil Procedure – Short title, commencement and extent 1. Short title, commencement and extent.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. (2) It shall come into force on the…
The ‘Code of Civil Procedure’ is a procedure law, i.e., an adjective law. The Code neither creates nor takes away any right. It only helps in proving or implementing the ‘Substantive Law’. It mainly lays down the procedure to be…
United States v. Belmont, 301 U.S. 324; 57 S. Ct. 758; L. Ed. 1134 (1937) Facts—The United States brought suit against Belmont to recover money deposited in a New York bank. The USSR had confiscated this money when it had…
Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416; 40 S. Ct. 382; 64 L. Ed. 641 (1920) Facts—The United States entered into a treaty with Great Britain to protect migratory birds. In the treaty was a provision that each of the contracting…
Head Money Cases (Edye v. Robertson), 112 U.S. 580; 5 S. Ct. 247; 28 L. Ed. 798 (1884) Facts—In 1882 Congress passed an act providing that a duty of fifty cents should be collected for each and every passenger who…
Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417; 118 S. Ct. 2091; 141 L. Ed. 2d 393 (1998) Facts—Congress adopted the Line Item Veto Act, which became effective in 1997. This act gave the president the powers to cancel…
Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654; 108 S. Ct. 2597; 101 L. Ed. 2d 569 (1988) Facts—The issue here is the constitutionality of the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. It began as a controversy…
Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654; 108 S. Ct. 2597; 101 L. Ed. 2d 569 (1988) Facts—The issue here is the constitutionality of the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. It began as a controversy…
Bowsher v. Snyar, 478 U.S. 714; 106 S. Ct. 3181; 92 L. Ed. 2d 583 (1986) Facts—The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (popularly known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) put a cap on the amount of federal…
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919; 103 S. Ct. 2764; 77 L. Ed. 2d 317 (1983) Facts—Chadha, an alien, had been lawfully admitted to the United States. His visa expired and the INS—under the Immigration and Nationality…
United States v. Lovett, 328 U.S. 303; 66 S. Ct. 1073; 90 L. Ed. 1252 (1946) Facts—Lovett, Watson, and Dodd had been working for the government for several years, and the government agencies that had lawfully employed them were fully…
Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681; 117 S. Ct. 1636; 137 L. Ed. 2d 945 (1997) Facts—Paula Corbin Jones brought suit against President Bill Clinton for “‘abhorrent’ sexual advances” that he allegedly made to her in a motel when he…
Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731; 102 S. Ct. 2690; 73 L. Ed. 2d 349 (1982) Facts—Fitzgerald lost his job as a management analyst with the Air Force during the Nixon presidency after Fitzgerald was involved in a public hearing…
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683; 94 S. Ct. 3090; 41 L. Ed. 2d 1039 (1974) Facts—As a result of the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., the investigations and subsequent…
Haig v. Agee, 453 U.S 280; 101 S. Ct. 2766; 69 L. Ed. 2d 640 (1981) Facts—Agee, an American citizen and a former employee of the CIA, an- nounced a campaign “to expose CIA officers and agents and to take…
Dames and Moore v. Regan, 453 U.S. 654; 69 L. Ed. 2d 918; 101 S. Ct. 2972 (1981) Facts—Pursuant to the International Economic Powers Act, President Carter declared a national emergency on November 14, 1979, and blocked the re- moval…
