Pecuniary Jurisdiction
The Code is procedural — it does not hand a court jurisdiction over a suit worth more than that court’s ordinary money limit.
The bare Act
The section in its own words — colour-keyed by what each phrase does.
Save in so far as is otherwise expressly provided, nothing herein contained shall operate to give any Court jurisdiction over suits the amount or value of the subject-matter of which exceeds the pecuniary limits (if any) of its ordinary jurisdiction.
In short: a court cannot acquire jurisdiction over a suit whose amount or value exceeds the pecuniary ceiling of its ordinary jurisdiction — nothing in the Code stretches that money-limit. The only escape is where some provision expressly says otherwise.
→ § 6 preserves the pecuniary limits fixed by the law that constitutes each court; the CPC governs procedure, it does not enlarge a court’s value-jurisdiction.
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