Section 18: District court to have jurisdiction

1) In relation to any case related to any immovable property, servitude, ditch and boundary, requiring on-site examination or inquiry by the nature of the subject matter of the case and any case requiring the examination of any land, house or property in view of the matters set down in the plaint, the district court of the district where such land, house or property is situated shall have jurisdiction to proceed, hear and adjudicate such a case.

2) The district court of the district where such property is situated shall have power to proceed, hear and adjudicate the following cases, in addition to that set forth in sub-section (1):

(a) A case involving the question of rent, crop or claimed amount or related to the ownership, 8 possessions, use of, or entitlement or disentitlement to, a property,

(b) A case related to freezing to or pre-emption, of an immovable property,

(c) A case related to division of an immovable property,

(d) A case related to the security, mortgage, use or enforcement of possession, of an immovable property,

(e) A case related to any concern or interest in an immovable property,

(f) A case related to compensation related with an immovable property.

3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or (2), the district court in which the plaint of a partition case is filed, out of the district courts of the districts where the plaintiff or the defendant is staying, shall have power to proceed, hear and adjudicate the case.