- Order 22, rule 85 of Civil Procedure Rules : Rules not applicable to transferee pendente lite
Nothing in rule 84 shall apply to resistance or obstruction in execution of a decree for the possession of immovable property by a person to whom the judgment-debtor has transferred the property after the institution of the suit in which the decree was passed or to the dispossession of any such...
- Order 22, rule 86 of Civil Procedure Rules : Order conclusive subject to regular suit
Any party not being a judgment-debtor against whom an order is made under rule 83 or rule 84, may institute a suit to establish the right which he claims to the present possession of the property; but, subject to the result of such suit, if any, the order shall be conclusive.
- Order 23, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Order for the attachment of debts
(1) A court may, upon the ex parte application of a decree-holder, and either before or after an oral examination of the judgment-debtor, and upon affidavit by the decree-holder or his advocate, stating that a decree has been issued and that it is still unsatisfied and to what amount, and that...
- Order 23, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Attachment of deposits
A credit in a deposit account with a bank or other financial institution shall for the purposes of this Order be a sum due or accruing and shall be attachable accordingly notwithstanding that any of the following requirements is applicable to the account and has not been complied with—
(a) that...
- Order 23, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Effect of garnishee order
Service of an order that debts due to a judgment-debtor liable under a decree shall be attached, or notice thereof to the garnishee in such manner, as the court may direct, shall bind such debts in his hands.
- Order 23, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Execution against garnishee
If the garnishee does not dispute the debt due or claimed to be due from him to the judgment-debtor, or, if he does not appear upon the day of hearing named in an order nisi, then the court may order execution against the person and goods of the garnishee to levy the amount due from him, or so much...
- Order 23, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Trial of liability of garnishee
If the garnishee disputes his liability, the court, instead of making an order that execution be levied, may order that any issue or question necessary for determining his indebtedness be tried and determined in the manner in which an issue or question in a suit is tried or determined.
- Order 23, rule 6 of Civil Procedure Rules : Claim of third person
Whenever in any proceedings to obtain an attachment of debts it is suggested by the garnishee that the debt sought to be attached belongs to some third person, or that any third person has a lien or charge upon it, the court may order such third person to appear, and state the nature and particulars...
- Order 23, rule 7 of Civil Procedure Rules : Trial of claim of third person
After hearing the allegations of any third person under such order, as in rule 6 mentioned, or of any other person who by the same or any subsequent order the court may order to appear, or in case of such third person not appearing when ordered, the court may order execution for levying the amount...
- Order 23, rule 8 of Civil Procedure Rules : Payment by or execution on the garnishee is a valid discharge
Payment made by or execution levied upon the garnishee under any such proceeding as aforesaid shall be a valid discharge to him as against the judgment-debtor to the amount paid or levied, although such proceeding or order may be set aside or the decree reversed.
- Order 23, rule 9 of Civil Procedure Rules : Record of proceedings
Proceedings under this Order shall be filed upon the record of the suit in which the decree sought to be enforced was obtained.
- Order 23, rule 10 of Civil Procedure Rules : Costs of proceedings
The costs of any application for an attachment of debts and of any proceedings arising from or incidental to such application, shall be in the discretion of the court, and the costs of the decree-holder shall, unless otherwise directed, be retained out of the money recovered by him under the...
- Order 24, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : No abatement by party’s death if right survives
The death of a plaintiff or defendant shall not cause the suit to abate if the cause of action survives or continues.
- Order 24, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure where one of several plaintiffs or defendants dies and right to sue survives
Where there are more plaintiffs or defendants than one, and any one of them dies, and where the cause of action survives or continues to the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs alone or against the surviving defendant or defendants alone, the court shall cause an entry to that effect to be made on the...
- Order 24, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure in case of death of one of several plaintiffs or of sole plaintiff
(1) Where one of two or more plaintiffs dies and the cause of action does not survive or continue to the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs alone, or a sole plaintiff or sole surviving plaintiff dies and the cause of action survives or continues, the court, on an application made in that behalf,...
- Order 24, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure in case of death of one of several defendants or of sole defendant
(1) Where one of two or more defendants dies and the cause of action does not survive or continue against the surviving defendant or defendants alone, or a sole defendant or sole surviving defendant dies and the cause of action survives or continues, the court, on an application made in that behalf,...
- Order 24, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Determination of question as to legal representative
Where a question arises as to whether any person is or is not the legal representative of a deceased plaintiff, or a deceased defendant, such question shall be determined by the court.
- Order 24, rule 6 of Civil Procedure Rules : When plaintiff’s bankruptcy bars suit
(1) The bankruptcy of a plaintiff in any suit which the trustee or official receiver might maintain for the benefit of his creditors shall not cause the suit to abate, unless such trustee or official receiver declines to continue the suit or (unless for any special reason the court otherwise...
- Order 24, rule 7 of Civil Procedure Rules : Effect of abatement or dismissal
(1) Where a suit abates or is dismissed under this Order, no fresh suit shall be brought on the same cause of action.
(2) The plaintiff or the person claiming to be the legal representative of a deceased plaintiff or the trustee or official receiver in the case of a bankrupt plaintiff may apply...
- Order 24, rule 8 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure in case of assignment before final order in suit
(1) In other cases of an assignment, creation, or devolution of any interest during the pendency of a suit, the suit may, by leave of the court, be continued by or against the person to or upon whom such interest has come or devolved.
(2) The attachment of a decree pending an appeal therefrom...
- Order 24, rule 9 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application of Order to appeals
In the application of this Order to appeals, so far as may be, the word “plaintiff” shall be held to include an appellant, the word “defendant” a respondent, and the word “suit” an appeal.
- Order 24, rule 10 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application of Order to execution proceedings
Nothing in rules 3, 4 and7 shall apply to proceedings in execution of a decree or order.
- Order 25, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Withdrawal by plaintiff
At any time before the setting down of the suit for hearing the plaintiff may by notice in writing, which shall be served on all parties, wholly discontinue his suit against all or any of the defendants or may withdraw any part of his claim, and such discontinuance or withdrawal shall not be a...
- Order 25, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Discontinuance
(1) Where a suit has been set down for hearing it may be discontinued, or any part of the claim withdrawn, upon the filing of a written consent signed by all the parties.
(2) Where a suit has been set down for hearing the court may grant the plaintiff leave to discontinue his suit or to withdraw...
- Order 25, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Costs
Upon request in writing by any defendant the registrar shall sign judgment for the costs of a suit which has been wholly discontinued, and any defendant may apply at the hearing for the costs of any part of the claim against him which has been withdrawn.
- Order 25, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Stay of subsequent suit
If any subsequent suit shall be brought before payment of the costs of a discontinued suit, upon the same, or substantially the same cause of action, the court may order a stay of such subsequent suit until such costs shall have been paid.
- Order 25, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Compromise of a suit
(1) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court, and the court after hearing the parties directs, that a suit has been adjusted wholly or in part by any lawful agreement or compromise, or where the defendant satisfies the plaintiff in respect of the whole or any part of the subject-matter of...
- Order 26, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Security for costs
In any suit the court may order that security for the whole or any part of the costs of any defendant or third or subsequent party be given by any other party.
- Order 26, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application before defence
If an application for security for costs is made before a defence is filed, there shall be filed with the application an affidavit setting out the grounds of the defence together with a statement of the deponent’s belief in the truth of the facts alleged.
- Order 26, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Where two or more defendants
Where it appears to the court that the substantial issue is which of two or more defendants is liable or what proportion of liability two or more defendants should bear no order for security for costs may be made.