Section 19

Where a plaintiff has a cause of action for more than $300,000

or such higher sum as the Chief Justice may prescribe by order published in the Gazette in which, if it were not for more than that amount, an

Intermediate Court would have jurisdiction, the plaintiff may abandon the excess in order to bring it within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court, and thereupon the Intermediate Court shall have jurisdiction to try the action, however the plaintiff shall not recover in that action or in any subsequent action the excess so abandoned.

Where an Intermediate Court has jurisdiction to try an action under subsection (1), the judgment shall be in full discharge of all demands in respect of the cause of action.

The parties to an action in which an Intermediate Court, if the amount claimed or the value of the subject matter in dispute did not exceed

$300,000 or such higher sum as the Chief Justice may prescribe by order published in the Gazette, would have jurisdiction may agree by a signed memorandum filed in the Intermediate Court that it shall have jurisdiction, notwithstanding that the amount claimed or the value of the subject matter in dispute exceeds that amount.

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