Question

Court under section $2\left(1\right)$(e), Arbitration and Conciliation Act means ______.

• A. Court of Small Causes
• B. Principal Civil Court and Civil Court of an inferior grade
• C. Principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction
• D. all of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is C Principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction

Court means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, and includes the High Court in exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jurisdiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of the arbitration if the same had been the subject matter of a suit, but does not include any civil court of a grade inferior to such principal Civil Court, or any Court of Small Causes.