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3. He valued the subject-matter of the suit for purposes of jurisdiction at Rs. 45,308 but paid a Court fee of Rs. 10 for the declaration that the decree is null and void. No separate valuation was given for the reliefs claimed. An attempt to supply it by way of amendment proved infructuous. The question that arose before the Division Bench was whether the payment of Rs. 10 as Court fee, treating the relief claimed as one for obtaining a mere declaratory decree, was sufficient or whether the plaintiff was claiming something more, i.e., a substantial relief for which an ad valorem Court fee should be charged. Recently a Bench of five Judges has had to consider some provisions of the Court-fees Act in Kalu Ram v. Babu Lal AIR 193 All 485. In that case the plaintiff had asked for reliefs for adjudging a certain mortgage deed void and ineffectual and for its cancellation and also for the cancellation of a compromise decree which resulted in a preliminary decree. The Full Bench pointed out that the reliefs claimed were something more than a mere declaratory decree and that the payment of Rs. 10 was not sufficient.