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The High Court is functus officio and lacks jurisdiction to set aside or nullify its own decree passed in a previous case; any challenge to such a decree must be made by appeal or revision to a higher court, not by instituting a fresh suit in the same court.
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The High Court struck out a suit seeking to set aside its own earlier decree, holding that it was functus officio and that the proper remedy was appeal or revision.
The High Court vacated its earlier company-order after finding material facts were concealed, held the applicants had locus standi, and remitted the dispute to be heard with a related pending case.
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