1. This civil revision petition is filed under Art.227 of the Constitution in somewhat unusual circumstances, which can be stated briefly, A suit O. S. No. 21 of 1968 was pending between Kichenaramanoudjam Chettiar (Plaintiff) and Alamelu Ammale and four other persons, in the Court of the Premier Instance at Karaikal. That suit was instituted on 7-4-1967. The Pondicherry Legislature passed the Pondicherry Civil Courts Act . 1966 (Act 12 of 1966). This Act provided lor the replacement of the existing hierarchy of Courts dealing with civil law in the Pondicherry Union Territory (which was formerly a part of the overseas territories of France) by a hierarchy of Courts following the same pattern as in the Indian Union. To illustrate this, under S.6(1) of the Act, the Tribunal Superieur d' Appel becomes the Court of the District Judge, the Tribunal of the Premier Instance becomes the Court of a Sub-Judge and the Court of the Judges de Paix becomes th