appealable case for deciding the other issues. In case the necessity arises, Order 14 Rule 2(2) enables the court to decide the issue of law as a preliminary issue in case the same relates to (1) the jurisdiction of the court, or (2) a bar to the suit created by any law for the time being in force. After the amendment made in CPC in the year 1977, it contains two-fold provision, the question of jurisdiction to entertain the suit has been separated under Rule 2(2)(a) from the expression in Rule 2(2)(b) "a bar to the suit created by any law for the time being in force". 51. The provision has been carved out under Section 9-A CPC to decide, question of jurisdiction to entertain, at the stage of deciding the interim application for injunction and the very purpose of enactment of the same was that the suits were being instituted without serving a notice under Section 80, which at the time of initial incorporation of provisions could not have been instituted without serving a notice of two months. There was a bar to institute a suit. It became a practice that after obtaining injunction, suit was allowed to be withdrawn with liberty to file fresh suit after serving the notice. To take care of misuse of the provisions, Section 9-A was introduced in the year 1970 and had been re-introduced again in 1977 to consider question of jurisdiction to entertain at the stage of granting injunction or setting aside. The provision has been inserted having the narrow meaning as at the stage of granting ex parte injunction; the question can be considered. The written statement, set-off and counterclaim are not filed, discovery, inspection, admission, production and summoning of the documents stage has not reached and after the stages described above, framing of issues takes place under Order XIV. As per Order XIV Rule 1, issues arise when a material proposition of fact or law is affirmed by the one party and denied by the other. The issues are framed on
