Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
The following instructions should be carefully observed in the submission of the Returns :— (a) The instructions given in the foot notes to the forms should be carefully observed. (b) The names of the Judicial Officers should be mentioned along with their designations. (c) If a Judicial Officer is transferred, is on deputation, or is on long leave, a note about the same should be made in the Returns against his name. (d) The name of the Judicial Officer on deputation and his disposals while on deputation should be shown against the Court where he was working on deputation. His disposals in his original Court should be shown against that Court. (e) In the case of link Courts or Circuit Courts, the information in respect of each Court should be furnished separately. (f) Suits and other matters re-admitted or received by transfer should be entered under the heading "Received during the month" along with the new institutions. The cases received by transfer from one Judge to another working in the same Court should be shown in plus and minus signs in the aforesaid column and proper explanations given in the remarks column or at the foot of the Returns. (g) The total number of cases (a) pending for arguments for more than seven days from the conclusion of the evidence and (b) pending for Judgment for more than fifteen days from the conclusion of the evidence should be separately shown in the remarks column. (h) Suits in which, after preliminary decrees are passed, further action for final decrees is to be taken by the Court without any application from a party [e.g. decrees under rules 12 (1) (b), 13, 15, 16 and 18 (2) of Order XX of the Civil Procedure Code] should be treated as pending and shown as such in the Monthly Returns. Suits in which, after preliminary decrees are passed, subsequent proceedings for passing final decrees do not arise as a matter of course [e.g. decrees under rules 12 (1) (c) and 18 (i) of Order XX and rules 2 to 8 of Order XXXIV of the Civil Procedure Code], should be shown as disposed of in the Monthly Returns. (i) Suits restored to file, remanded or received back from the Debt Adjustment Courts and those transferred from another Court should be shown against the same year in which they were originally instituted. (j) The Civil Judges should show in the remarks column of their Returns, the number of plaints that have remained to be registered or otherwise dealt with within one week of their presentation.