law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  24.General power of
  
  transfer and withdrawal.-
  (1) On the application
  
  of any of the parties and after notice to the parties and after hearing such of
  
  them as desired to be heard, or of its own motion without such notice, the High
  
  Court or the District Court may at any stage-
  (a)
  
  transfer any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending before it for trial or
  
  disposal to any Court subordinate to it and competent to try or dispose of the
  
  same, or
  (b)
  
  withdraw any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending in any Court subordinate
  
  to it, and
  (i) try or dispose of the same; or
  (ii)
  
  transfer the same for trial or disposal to any Court subordinate to it and competent
  
  to try or dispose of the same; or
  (iii)
  
  retransfer the same for trial or disposal to the Court from which it was
  
  withdrawn.
  (2) Where any suit or
  
  proceeding has been transferred or withdrawn under sub-section (1), the Court
  
  which thereafter tries such suit may, subject to any special directions in the
  
  case of an order of transfer, either retry it or proceed from the point at
  
  which it was transferred or withdrawn.
  (3) For the purposes
  
  of this section, Courts of Additional and Assistant Judges shall be deemed to
  
  be subordinate to the District Court.
  (4) The Court trying
  
  any suit transferred or withdrawn under this section from a Court of Small
  
  Causes shall, for the purposes of such suit, be deemed to be a Court of Small
  
  Causes.