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Provision as to option for any plaintiff (subject to rules) to choose in what Division he will sue.
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37. Subject to any rules of Court, and to the provisions herein-before contained, and to the power of transfer, every person by whom any cause or matter may be commenced in the said High Court of Justice shall assign such cause or matter to one of the Divisions of the said High Court as he may think fit by marking the document by which the same is commenced with the name of such Division, and giving notice thereof to the proper officer of the Court: Provided that—
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(1.) All interlocutory and other steps and proceedings in or before the said High Court, in any cause or matter subsequent to the commencement thereof, shall be taken (subject to any rules of Court and to the power of transfer) in the Division of the said High Court to which such cause or matter is for the time being attached; and
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(2.) If any plaintiff or petitioner shall at any time assign his cause or matter to any Division of the said High Court to which according to the rules of Court or the provisions herein-before contained the same ought not to be assigned, the Court, or any Judge of such Division, upon being informed thereof, may, on a summary application, at any stage of the cause or matter, direct the same to be transferred to the Division of the said Court to which according to such rules or provisions the same ought to have been assigned, or he may, if he think it expedient so to do, retain the same in the Division in which the same was commenced; and all steps and proceedings whatsoever taken by the plaintiff or petitioner, or by any other party in any such cause or matter, and all orders made therein by the Court or any Judge thereof before any such transfer shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes in the same manner as if the same respectively had been taken and made in the proper Division of the said Court to which such cause or matter ought to have been assigned; and
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