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" IMPLICATION OF   IMPLICATION OF CLAUSE (XII) SECTION 7 OF COURT FEES ACT, 1870   By   Ch. Muhammad Bashir, Advocate, Faisalabad   Clause (xii) was added to section 7 of Court Fees Act, 1870 by the Court-Fee (Amendment) Ordinance, 1962, with effect from 7th June, 1962, which reads as under:-‑   "In suits not expressly provided for in this section, according to the value claimed, but such value shall not be less than a value which would attract a court-fee of less than fifteen rupees. "   The said clause is intended to serve as a residuary provision to Clauses (i) to (xi) of section 7 to add an infinite kinds of suits to the suits covered by the said foregoing clauses, subject to discretionary power of suitors to value such suits, at an amount, not less than the amount as may attract a court-fee of fifteen rupees.   The said minimal requirement of payment of court-fee of fifteen rupees has been rendered redundant by Punjab Notification No.253-80/248-St.1, dated 4-2-1980, issued under section 35 of the Court Fees Act, which remits court-fee on any Civil and Revenue suits the value of the subject-matter whereof, or of the relief claimed therein, does not exceed twenty-five thousand rupees, at all stages in all Courts, including Revenue Court.   It will be pertinent to note that similar kind of discretion, as given in Clause (xii), has been given to the plaintiff in respect of suits covered by Clause (iv), without any compulsion to value, the suits at an amount which may attract a court-fee of fifteen rupees.   In a way discretion given to plaintiff in the case of Clause (iv) is better than that given in the case of Clause (xii), as in the former case there is-no obligation on plaintiff to value the suit at such…