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(g) all criminal trials instituted or commenced in the High Court of Rampur in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction and pending before that High Court immediately before the appointed day shall stand transferred to the Sessions Judge, Rampur;

(h) every appeal, case and other proceeding (other than proceedings to which clause (f) or (g) applies, but not excluding proceedings in company matters) pending before the High Court of Rampur immediately before the appointed day shall stand transferred to the High Court at Allahabad, unless it be an appeal in a criminal proceeding and the sentences appealed against is a sentence of fine only or is a sentence of imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years, whether with or without fine, in which case it shall stand transferred to the Sessions Judge, Rampur;

(i) all the powers and jurisdiction which under the law for the time being in force in Rampur were immediately before the appointed day exercisable by the High Court of Rampur in the exercise of its original jurisdiction shall be exercised by the District Judge, Rampur, or the Sessions Judge, Rampur, as the case may be;

(j) where any existing Civil Court by reason of its abolition under clause (c) of this Article, ceases to have jurisdiction with respect to any suit or proceeding, any proceeding in relation to that suit or proceeding which, if that Court had not ceased to have jurisdiction, might have been had therein, may be had in the Court to which the business of the former Court has been transferred under this Article;

(k) all suits and proceedings pending immediately before the appointed day before any of the existing Civil Courts shall stand transferred to the lowest Court, established under the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887, as extended to Rampur, which would have jurisdiction to try or dispose of such suit or proceeding;

(l) appeals from decrees and orders passed by the existing Civil Courts, but not appealed against before the appointed day, shall—

(i) in cases where such appeals would, before that day, have lain under the law in force in Rampur to the High Court of Rampur, lie to the High Court at Allahabad;