1. This judgment will dispose of Civil revision Petitions Nos. 94 105 and 167 of 1981 and 12 of 1982, wherein two common questions of law: one whether the transferee court is a validly constituted court: and two whether Honourable the Chief Justice could have transferred to it the case pending before a Civil court of competent jurisdiction by exercising the administrative powers of the High Court, have arisen for determination. Both these questions have been answered by the transferee courts against the petitioners, hence these revision petitions.

2. In Civil Revision Petition No. 94 a civil suit was pending in the court of Sub Registrar (Munsiif) Jammu. On its redesignation as the court of First Additional Munsiff (P.M.) Jammu the suit was transferred to the court of Forest Magistrate, Jammu, Similarly, in Civil Revision No. 105 a civil suit was pending in the Sub Judge (CJM) Jammu On its redesignation as the Court of First Additional Subordinate Judge. Jammu, the suit was transferred to the court of Municipal Magistrate, Jammu. In Civil Revision No. 167 a civil suit was pending in the Court of City Judge, Jammu, On its redesignation as the Court of Second Civil Subordinate Judge,

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