Legal Provisions of Section 20 of Code of Civil Procedure 1908, (C.P.C.), India
Subject to the-limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted in a Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction(a) The defendant, or each of the defendants where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain; or ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) Any of the defendants, where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain, provided that in such case either the leave of the Court is given, or the defendants who do not reside, or carry on business, or personally work for gain, as aforesaid, acquiesce in such institution; or(c) The cause of action, wholly…