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Order 10, Rule 1C CPC 1C. Appearance before the Court consequent to the failure of efforts of conciliation. Where a suit is referred under rule 1A and the presiding officer of conciliation forum or authority is satisfied that it would not be proper in the interest of justice to proceedRead…

Order 10, Rule 1B CPC 1B. Appearance before the conciliatory forum or authority. Where a suit is referred under rule 1A, the parties shall appear before such forum or authority for conciliation of the suit. Read CPC in a better and systematic way. Download beautiful, colourful CPC PDF.Read…

Order 10, Rule 1A CPC 1A. Direction of the court to opt for any one mode of alternative dispute resolution. After recording the admissions and denials, the Court shall direct the parties to the suit to opt either mode of the settlement outside the court as specified in sub-section (1)Read…

Order 8, Rule 1A 1A. Duty of defendant to produce documents upon which relief is claimed or relied upon by him. (1) Where the defendant bases his defence upon a document or relies upon any document in his possession or power, in support of his defence or claim for setRead…

Order 5, Rule 9A CPC 9A. Summons given to the plaintiff for service. (1) The Court may, in addition to the service of summons under Rule 9, on the application of the plaintiff for the issue of a summons for the appearance of the defendant, permit such plaintiff to effectRead…

PRELIMINARY (1-8) Section 1. Short title, commencement and extent. (1) This Act may be cited as the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. (2) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1909. (3) It extends to the whole of India except- (a) the State of Jammu andRead…

Section 2. Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (1) “Code” includes rules;  (2) “Decree” means the formal expression of an adjudication which, so far as regards the Court expressing it, conclusively determines the rights of the parties with regard to all orRead…

Section 3. Subordination of Courts. For the purposes of this Code, the District Court is subordinate to the High Court, and every Civil Court of a grade inferior to that of a District Court and every Court of Small Causes is subordinate to the High Court and District Court. ReadRead…

Section 4. Savings. (1) In the absence of any specific provision to the contrary, nothing in this Code shall be deemed to limit or otherwise affect any special or local law now in force or any special jurisdiction or power conferred, or any special form of procedure prescribed, by orRead…

Section 5. Application of the Code of Revenue Courts. (1) Where any Revenue Courts are governed by the provisions of this Code in those matters of procedure upon which any special enactment applicable to them is silent, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that anyRead…

Section 6. Pecuniary jurisdiction. Save in so far as is otherwise expressly provided, nothing herein contained shall operate to give any Court jurisdiction over suits the amount or value of the subject-matter of which exceeds the pecuniary limits (if any) of its ordinary jurisdiction. Read CPC in a better andRead…

Section 7. Provincial Small Cause Courts. The following provisions shall not extend to Courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887) or under the Berar Small Cause Courts Laws, 1905, or to Courts exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes under the saidRead…

Section 8. Presidency Small Cause Courts. Save as provided in sections 24, 38 to 41, 75, clauses (a), (b) and (c), 76, 77, 157 and 158, and by the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882, (15 of 1882) the provisions in the body of this Code shall not extend toRead…

PART I (9-35B) – SUITS IN GENERAL Jurisdiction of the Courts and Res-judicata Section 9. Courts to try all civil suits unless barred. The Courts shall (subject to the provisions herein contained) have jurisdiction to try all suits of a civil nature excepting suits of which their cognizance is eitherRead…

Section 10. Stay of suit. No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating underRead…

Section 11. Res-judicata. No Court shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim, litigating under the sameRead…