DHANNA Vs. ARJUN LAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a revision application by the defendant against an ex parte decree passed by the Judge, Small Causes, Udaipur.

(2.) THE sole question which arises for determination is whether the proviso to clause 15 (1) of the Rajasthan Small Cause Courts Ordinance is mandatory or not. Clause 15 of the Ordinance corresponds to Section 17 of the Provincial Small cause Courts Act. This proviso runs as follows:

(3.) THE underlined portion of the above proviso was added by Act IX of 1935. Before the amendment the words were-