law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  22.Power to transfer
  
  suits which may be instituted in more than one Court.-
  Where a suit may be
  
  instituted in any one of two or more Courts and is instituted in one of such
  
  Courts, any defendant, after notice to the other parties, may, at the earliest
  
  possible opportunity and in all cases where issues are settled at or before
  
  such settlement, apply to have the suit transferred to another Court, and the
  
  Court to which such application is made, after considering the objections of
  
  the other parties (if any), shall determine in which of the several Courts
  
  having jurisdiction the suit shall proceed.