Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
Attention is invited to Government Notification No. 5361, dated the 25th October 1890, issued under section 26 (1) of the Succession Certificate Act (VII of 1889), and printed at page 1259 of the Bombay Local Rules and Orders under Central Acts, Volume I, 1953 edition, under which all Civil Judges in this State have for the purpose of the said Act been invested with the functions of a District Court. The Notification has also the effect of investing Civil Judges with the power to hear applications made under section 2 of Bombay Regulation, VIII of 1827. Although the Succession Certificate Act, 1889, has been repealed, the Notification dated 25th October 1890, remains in force by virtue of section 24 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. Applications under section 2 of Regulation VIII of 1827 can be entertained by Civil Judges directly or when transferred to them by the District Judges.