Nature of the civil jurisdiction

(1) Subject to sub-section (2), the civil jurisdiction which the court has, and is capable of exercising, is to hear and determine– (a) all disputes in which the debts or damages claimed, whether on balance of account or otherwise, or the value of the chattel claimed or involved, do not exceed twenty-five dollars; (b) with the consent in writing of both plaintiff and defendant, all disputes in which the debt or damages claimed, whether on balance of account or otherwise, or the value of the chattel claimed or involved, exceeds twenty- five dollars but does not exceed one hundred dollars. (2) The court shall have no power to hear and determine– (a) any action relating to possession of land or in which the title to any corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments is in question; or (b) any action for libel, slander, malicious prosecution, seduction or breach of promise of marriage. 29