Section 17 in The Court-fees Act, 1870
17. Multifarious suits
Where a suit embraces two or more distinct subjects, the plaint or memorandum
Court for dismissal of the suit on the ground that the suit is barred on the ground of multifariousness and bad for misjoinder of parties ... suit filed by the respondents herein and according to the appellant/petitioner, the present suit is a counter-blast suit and with an oblique
looked at. It deals with multifarious suits. Where a suit is found to be multifarious, the amount of court-fee chargeable shall be the aggregate ... problem.
3. In order to understand the concept of multifarious suits, one has to turn to the provisions of Civil Procedure Code. Multi-fariousness
that the plaintiff's suit is barred by law; the law that bars the suit is multifariousness.
2. The case made ... filing of a suit, in my view, the question whether the suit of the plaintiffs is bad for multifariousness should be decided in this application
entirely of the same opinion. This Section 17 plainly relates to multifarious suits which are allowable by Section 45 of the Code of Procedure ... ought to have been made subject of separate suits, in fact, when the suit is multifarious and of the nature of those referred
brevity),
deals with multifarious suits. Section 6(2) of the Act
of 1958 reads as under:
Section 6 - Multifarious suits
(1) xxxxxx
(2) Where more ... reads as under:
Section 6 - Multifarious suits
(1) xxxxxx
(2) xxxxxx
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(3) Where
suit based upon
one and the same cause of action, it cannot be said that the
suit suffers from multifariousness so as to attract ... distinct suit. In the present
case, since there is no case made out to treat the suit as
multifarious, obviously, the said decisions will
Court Fees Act and as such
it is a multifarious suit. It is also argued that the plaintiff for
ulterior motives joined together the distinct ... regard to all these
properties in the present suit and therefore the present suit is a
multifarious suit and the court fees is required
date of issue of the certificate by the Court. 18. Multifarious Suits-
Where a suit embraces two or more distinct subjects, the plaint or memorandum
full fee had been paid in the first instance. 6. Multifarious suits.
(1) In any suit in which separate and distinct reliefs based