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An appeal shall not lie from any decree or order passed, whether in the first instance or on re n p p*’J m appeal, in any suit instituted by a landlord for the recovery of rent where— (а) the decree or order is passed by a District Ju dge, Additional Judge or Subordinate Judge, and the amount claimed in the suit does not exceed one hundred rupees, or (б) the decree or order is passed by any other judicia l officer specially empowered by the [State Governm ent]* to exercise final juris diction under this section, and the amount claimed in the suit does not exceed 50 ru pee ?; unless in either case the decree or order has decided a question relating to the title to land or to some interest in land as between parties having conflicting claims thereto: Provided th at the District Jud ge may call for the record of any case in-which the judicial officer as afore said has passed a decree or order to which this section applies, if it appears that the judicial officer has exercised a jurisdiction not vested in him by law, or has failed to exercise a juiisdiction so vested, or has acted in the exercise of his jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity, and may pass such order as the District Judge thinks fit.