Available grounds of appeal

The following grounds of appeal and no other may be taken, namely, that– (a) the inferior court had no jurisdiction in the matter, but it shall not be competent for the Court to entertain that ground of appeal unless objection to the jurisdiction of the inferior court was formally taken at some time during the progress of the case and before the decision was pronounced; (b) the inferior court exceeded its jurisdiction in the matter; (c) the magistrate was personally interested in the (d) the magistrate acted corruptly or maliciously in the matter, or took extraneous matter into consideration; (e) the decision was obtained by fraud; (f) the cause had been already heard or tried and decided by, or forms the subject of a hearing or trial pending before, some competent tribunal; (g) was wrongly rejected, or inadmissible evidence was wrongly admitted, by the inferior court, and in the latter case there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the (h) the decision was unreasonable or could not be supported having regard to the evidence; (i) the decision was erroneous in point of law; (j) the decision was based on a wrong principle or was such that the inferior court viewing the circumstances reasonably could not properly have so decided; (k) some specific illegality, than hereinbefore mentioned, substantially affecting the merits of the case, was 62 committed in the course of the proceedings therein or in the decision; or (l) the sentence was unduly severe or lenient.