N. H. BHATT, J. ( 1 ) THIS is a revision application filed by the plaintiff of the Regular Civil Suit No. 110 of 1975 in the Court of the Civil Judge (Junior Division) Bagasra-Vasia. The plaintiff Panchayat has filed the said suit for the declaration of its title to a piece of the land and for an injunction restraining the opponent-defendant from putting up any structure thereon. The suit was fixed on April 6 1977 for being proceed- ed with. The examination-in-chief of the defendant was recorded and cross-examination had just commenced. Then there was recess inter- vening. The learned Advocate for the plaintiff thereafter did not feel well and therefore went to his house and found that he had caught fever. Finding that a part-heard suit was there before the Court he in that feverish condition went to the learned Judge and filed his sick note and orally prayed for adjournment of the case. The learned Judge by his order below Exhibit 92 rejected the said application on the ground that Order XVII Rule 1 (2) (d) came in his way. Thereafter the advocate of the plaintiff gave Application Ex. 93 requesting the Court to give time to the plaintiff to engage another advocate. That application was also rejected under the very provision. In the absence of the advocate for the plaintiff the cross-examination was closed and the case was ad- journed to April 28 1977 On that day the application Exhibit 95 was given on behalf of the plaintiff to the Court seeking permission to cross- examine the defendant. The said application was rejected by the learned trial Judge. On April 6 1977 it seems one application-Exhibit 94 had also been given by the very advocate to the Court to adjourn the matter so that his client could move the High Court in revision against the orders below Exhibits 93 and 94. However on April 28 1577 it was declared to the Court that the revision application was not sought to be filed and that the plaintiff should be given an opportunity to cross- examine the defendant. The learned Judge in view of that back-ground and perhaps because of the annoyance at the disinclination of the learned advocate of the plaintiff to approach the High Court rejected the appli- cation Exhibit 95. ( 2 ) THE present application is preferred under sec. The learned Judge in view of that back-ground and perhaps because of the annoyance at the disinclination of the learned advocate of the plaintiff to approach the High Court rejected the appli- cation Exhibit 95. ( 2 ) THE present application is preferred under sec. 115 (c) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The Order XVII Rule 1 (2) (b) has been unfortunately mis-read by the learned Judge with the result that he had rejected the motion for adjournment and other applications directly flowing from it. The Order XVII Rule (1) says that the Court may if sufficient cause is shown grant time to the parties or to any one of them and may from time to time adjourn the hearing of the suit. This is an enabling provision. Sub-rule (2) of this rule makes provision for costs of adjournment and to that sub-rule (2) a proviso is annexed which lays down that once the hearing of the suit commences it has to go on from day to day and that thereafter no adjournment has to be given at the request of a party except where the circumstances are beyond the control of that party. Clause (c) of the proviso states that the engagement of the lawyer in ano- ther Court is not a ground for adjournment. Then comes important clause (d) which deals with the illness of a pleader or his inability to conduct the case for any reason other than the one of his being engaged in another Court. This clause (d) is couched in negative language and says when the ground like illness of the pleader also shall be ignored by the Court. The only conceivable circumstance in which the illness of a pleader or his inability referred to above is to be ignored by the Court is the possibility of engaging any other pleader in time. In other words if the illness is sudden the Court by virtue of the Order XVII Rule 1 (1) of the Civil Procedure Code is bound to adjourn the matter as the clause (d) of the proviso says that if there is the circumstance beyond the con- trol of the party the adjournment has to be granted. In other words if the illness is sudden the Court by virtue of the Order XVII Rule 1 (1) of the Civil Procedure Code is bound to adjourn the matter as the clause (d) of the proviso says that if there is the circumstance beyond the con- trol of the party the adjournment has to be granted. Unfortunately the learned trial Judge failed to note the spirit of the law explicit in the clauses (h) and (d) of the proviso to sub-rule (2) of Rule 1 of Order XVII of the Civil Procedure Code. The learned trial Judge nowhere says that the advocate as a matter of fact had not fallen sick. All that the learned Judge says is that sick note cannot be granted in view of the clause (d) of the proviso which as interpreted by me above clearly provides for adjournment of the case on the ground of illness of the advocate except in the situation in which the parties whose advocate he is had enough notice of the illness and there was enough opportunity for that party to engage another advocate. The advocate had already commenced the cross-examination before the recess and after recess the advocate seems to have developed ill disposition all of a sudden. Despite that illness he personally went to the Court and sought an adjournment. Under the erroneous conception of law the learned trial Judge turned down the request and brought about an unpleasant situation in which the subsequent applications also came to be rejected. The application exhibit 95 is rejected on extraneous ground. The presumption regarding moving the High Court against the order below the Exhibits 92 and 93 had no- thing to do with the granting or rejecting of the Application Exhibit 95 dated April 28 1977 Thus the learned trial Judge has committed the illegality and irregularity of procedure in the matter of the exercise of his jurisdiction. The case clearly falls under sec. 115 (c) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The case clearly falls under sec. 115 (c) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The Revision application is therefore allowed and the orders below Exhibits 92 93 and 95 are set aside and the matter is directed to be resumed from the stage it was at the beginning of the second session of the day on April 6 1977 There will be no order as to the costs of this revision application in the facts and circumstances of the case particularly the non-contesting of this application from the side of the original defendant. Application allowed. .