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| (1) A Magistrate's Court shall, within its division, have exclusive original jurisdiction to hear and determine all actions, proceedings or matters in which the debt, damage, demand or claim, or the value of the movable or immovable property or the particular share, right or interest in dispute or the land to be partitioned or sold does not exceed one thousand five hundred rupees. |
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| (2) It shall not be lawful for any plaintiff to divide any cause of action for the purpose of bringing two or more actions in a Magistrate's Court. Any plaintiff having a cause of action for an amount exceeding the amount in respect of which a Magistrate's Court has jurisdiction, may abandon the excess, and seek to recover an amount not exceeding the amount in respect of which such court has jurisdiction, and the judgment of the court shall be in full discharge of all demands in respect of such cause of action. |
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| (3) Where in any proceeding before any Magistrate's Court any defence or claim in reconvention of the defendant involves matter beyond the jurisdiction of the court, such defence or claim in reconvention shall not affect the competence or duty of the court to dispose of the matter in issue, but no relief exceeding that which the court has jurisdiction to grant shall be given to the defendant upon any such claim in reconvention: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts