Civil — Memorandum of Appeal and Memorandum of revision

Your neighbour loses a suit over a disputed passage between two buildings in Thane, and the trial judge's decree goes against him. He asks you, the intern, whether he can simply go to the High Court and tell them the judge was wrong. You find that the answer depends on what kind of order it is and what the statute says about it, because in civil law nobody has an inherent right of appeal. What has to be written in the paper that carries his grievance upstairs, and when is revision the route instead?

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A civil appeal is a statutory remedy started by a signed memorandum of appeal with the judgment attached and numbered grounds stated without argument (CPC Order XLI rule 1), while revision under s.115 CPC is a High Court supervisory remedy for jurisdictional error in a case where no appeal lies.

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