§ Mr. PILCHERasked the Under-secretary of State for India the minimum amount at stake in civil litigation in India which is held to justify an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; the approximate date at which such minimum was fixed; and whether any increase in such amount is contemplated to correspond with the decline in postwar currency values?
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§ Earl WINTERTONA suit to be appealable to His Majesty in Council must ordinarily involve a value of not less than Rs. 10,000. This figure was first fixed at least as early as 1838. Its revision is not at present under consideration.