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4. Mr. Banerjee appearing on behalf of the respondents has urged that in the absence of a definition we should give a wide meaning to the term civil court and any Tribunal or functionary exercising 'judicial functions and, adjudicating disputes not 'relating to crimes should be taken to be a civil court. He has urged that the Debt Settlement Board or the Special Officer also adjudicates disputes as to the existence of debts and as to the manner of its satisfaction and they should be taken to be civil courts within the meaning of paragraph 4 of the Legal Proceedings Order. But in view of the context in which the term civil court or criminal court Is used in paragraph 4 we do not think, that this extended meaning can be given to the civil court as used in paragraph 4 of the Legal Proceedings Order. That being so, it is clear that the respondents cannot take advantage of sub-paragraph. 3 of paragraph 4, and therefore the civil court at Alipore could not take any notice of the intimation which was received from the Special Officer, Jhenidah exercising powers of the Debt Settlement Board, that the debt in question, namely, the decretal amount had been included in an award, and could not therefore pass an order as to abatement. The appellant took part in the proceedings before the Jhenidah Debt Settlement Board or the Special Officer even after the partition and the final order appears to have been passed under Section 19 (1) (a) of the Bengal Agricultural Debtors Act, that is, with the consent, express or implied, of the appellant, but the award as such of the Debt Settlement Board or the Special Officer cannot be taken notice of by the court at Alipore. As already stated, only if the award was reinforced by a decree of a court in West Bengal, the court would be bound to take notice of it, but without such a decree of a West Bengal court reinforcing such an award; the award must be deemed to be non-existent so far as the courts in West Bengal are concerned. It would, therefore, appear that, the order passed on 6-1-1950 that the execution case do abate in view of the intimation of the Special Offices, Jhenidah was an order made without jurisdiction, the executing court having lost sight of the fact that the intimation had been received from a Board in Pakistan and that an award of a Pakistan court was no longer binding after the Partition.