TAMIL NADU COURT FEES AND SUITS VALUATION ACT, 1955

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Application of Act

S.3 Definitions

S.4 Levy of fee in Courts and Public Offices

S.5 Fees on documents inadvertently received

S.6 Multifarious suits

S.7 Determination of market value

S.8 Set off or counter claim

S.9 Documents failing under two or more descriptions

S.10 Statement of particulars of subject matter of suit and plaintiff’s valuation thereof

S.11 Decision as to proper fee in the High Court

S.12 Decision as to proper fee in other courts.

S.13 Additional fee on issues framed

S.14 Relinquishment of portion of claim

S.15 Fee payable on written statements

S.16 Fee payable on appeals etc.

S.17 Fee payable on petitions, application, etc.

S.18 Court fee Examiners

S.19 Inquiry and commission.

S.20 Notice to the State Government

S.21 Fee how reckoned

S.22 Suit for money

S.23 Suits for maintenance and annuities

S.24 Suits for movable property

S.25 Suit for declaration

S.26 Adoption suits

S.27 Suit for injunction

S.28 Suits relating to trust property

S.29 Suits for possession under the Specifice Relief Act, 1877

S.30 Suits for possession not otherwise provided for

S.31 Suits relating to easement

S.32 Pre-emption suits

S.33 Suits relating to mortgages

S.34 Suits relating to kanam under the Malabar Tenancy Act, 1929

S.35 Suits for accounts

S.36 Suits for dissolution of partnership

S.37 Partition suits.

S.38 Suits for joint possession

S.39 Administration suits.

S.40 Suits for cancellation of decrees etc.

S.41 Suit to set aside attachment , etc.

S.42 Suits for specific performance

S.43 Suits between landlord and tenant

S.44 Suits for mesne profits

S.45 Suits under the Tamil Nadu Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923

S.46 Suits to alter or cancel entry in a register

S.47 Suits relating to public matters

S.48 Inter pleader suits.

S.49 Third party proceedings

S.50 Suits not otherwise provided for

S.51 Fee on memorandum of appeal against order relating to compensation

S.52 Appeals

S.53 Suits not otherwise provided for

S.54 Procedure where objection is taken on appeal or revision that a suit or appeal was not properly valued for jurisdictional purposes.

S.55 Application for probate or letters of administration

S.56 Levy of fees

S.57 Grant of probate

S.58 Relief in cases several grants

S.59 Inquiry by the Collector

S.60 Application to court and powers of court

S.61 Provision for cases where too low a fee has been paid.

S.62 Administrator to give proper security before letters stamped

S.63 Relief when too high a fee has been paid

S.64 Recovery of penalties, etc.

S.65 Powers of Board of Revenue

S.66 Refund in cases of delay in presentation of plaint, etc.

S.67 Refund in cases of remand

S.68 Refund where court reverses or modifies former decision on ground of mistake

S.69 Refund on settlement before hearing

S.70 Refund of fee paid by mistake or inadvertence

S.71 Instruments of partition

S.72 Exemption of certain documents

S.73 Power to reduce or remit fees

S.74 Collection of fees by stamps

S.75 Stamps to be impressed or adhesive

S.76 Amended document

S.77 Cancellation of stamp

S.78 Deduction to be made

S.79 Penalty

S.80 Power of High Court to make rules