Order 38, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Staying several suits against the same defendant
Where two or more persons have instituted suits against the same defendant and such persons under rule 1 of Order I could have been joined as co-plaintiffs in one suit, upon the application of any of the parties with notice to all affected parties, the court may, if satisfied that the issues to be tried in each suit are precisely similar, make an order directing that one of the suits be tried as a test case, and staying all steps in the other suits until the selected suit shall have been determined, or shall have failed to be a real trial of the issues.
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(2) An ex parte...
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In all applications for injunction, the court shall, after inter-partes hearing deliver its ruling either at once or within thirty days of the conclusion of the hearing with notice to the parties or...
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Every receiver so appointed shall—
(a) furnish such security (if any) as the court thinks fit, duly to account for what he shall receive in respect of the property;
(b) submit his accounts at such...
- Order 41, rule 4 - Enforcement of receiver’s duties
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(a) fails to submit his accounts at such periods and in such form as the court directs; or
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(1) Every appeal to the High Court shall be in the form of a memorandum of appeal signed in the same manner as a pleading.
(2) The memorandum of appeal shall set forth concisely and under distinct...
- Order 42, rule 2 - Filing of decree or order
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- Order 42, rule 3 - Amendment of memorandum of appeal
(1) The appellant may amend his memorandum of appeal without leave at any time before the court gives directions under rule 13.
(2) After the time limited by subrule (1) the court may, on...
- Order 42, rule 4 - Grounds which may be taken in appeal
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(2) The court receiving...
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