DISTRICT COURT ACT 1973 - SECT 48
Miscellaneous limitations on jurisdiction
DISTRICT COURT ACT 1973 - SECT 48
Miscellaneous limitations on jurisdiction
48 Miscellaneous limitations on jurisdiction
(1) An action in which the amount claimed does not exceed $4,000 and which
could have been commenced in the Local Court shall not be commenced in
the District Court except with the leave of the District Court, which leave
may be given on terms.
(3) If the title
to land the value of which is more than the Court's jurisdictional limit
incidentally comes in question in an action, the Court shall have power to
decide the claim which it is the immediate object of the action to enforce,
but the judgment of the Court shall not be evidence of title between the
parties or their privies in other proceedings in the Court or in any
proceedings in any other court.
(4) Without affecting Division 8, the Court
shall not have jurisdiction in actions for possession of land by virtue of
this Part.