law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  
  16.Suits to be instituted where subject matter situate.-
  Subject
  
  to the pecuniary or other limitations prescribed by any law, suits-
  (a) for the recovery of immovable property with or without rent or profits,
  (b) for the partition of immovable property,
  (c) for foreclosure, sale or redemption in the case of a mortgage of or charge
  
  upon immovable property,
  (d) for the determination of any other right to or interest in immovable
  
  property,
  (e) for compensation for wrong to immovable property,
  (f) for the recovery of movable property actually under distraint or
  
  attachment, shall be instituted in the Court within the local limits of whose
  
  jurisdiction the property is situate:
  
  Provided that a suit to obtain relief respecting, or compensation for
  
  wrong to, immovable property held by or on behalf of the defendant may, where
  
  the relief sought can be entirely obtained through his personal obedience, be
  
  instituted either in the Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction
  
  the property is situate, or in the Court within the local limits of whose
  
  jurisdiction the defendant actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on
  
  business, or personally works for gain.
  
  Explanation.-In this section " property " means property
  
  situate in {Subs. by Act 2 of 1951, s.3, for "the States".} [India].