- Order 42, rule 22 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to adjourn hearing and direct interested persons to be made respondents
Where it appears to the court at the hearing that any person who was a party to the suit in the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred, but who has not been made a party to the appeal, is interested in the result of the appeal, the court may adjourn the hearing to a future day to be fixed...
- Order 42, rule 23 of Civil Procedure Rules : Re-hearing on application of respondent against whom ex parte decree made
Where an appeal is heard ex parte and judgment is pronounced against the respondent, he may apply to the court to which the appeal is preferred to re-hear the appeal; and if he satisfies the court that the notice was not duly served or that he was prevented by sufficient cause from appearing when...
- Order 42, rule 24 of Civil Procedure Rules : Remand of cases
Where the court from whose decree an appeal is preferred has disposed of the suit upon a preliminary point, and the decree is reversed on appeal, the court to which the appeal is preferred may, if it deems fit, by order remand the case, and may further direct what issue or issues shall be tried in...
- Order 42, rule 25 of Civil Procedure Rules : Where evidence on record sufficient appellate court may determine case finally
Where the evidence upon the record is sufficient to enable the court to which the appeal is preferred to pronounce judgment, the court to which the appeal is preferred may, after resettling the issues, if necessary, finally determine the suit, notwithstanding that the judgment of the court from...
- Order 42, rule 26 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to order new trial
If upon the hearing of an appeal it shall appear to the court to which the appeal is preferred that a new trial ought to be had, it shall be lawful for the said court, if it shall think fit, to order that the judgment and decree shall be set aside, and that a new trial shall be had.
- Order 42, rule 27 of Civil Procedure Rules : Production of additional evidence in appellate court
(1) The parties to an appeal shall not be entitled to produce additional evidence, whether oral or documentary, in the court to which the appeal is preferred; but if—
(a) the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred has refused to admit evidence which ought to have been admitted; or...
- Order 42, rule 28 of Civil Procedure Rules : Mode of taking additional evidence
Wherever additional evidence is allowed to be produced, the court to which the appeal is preferred may either take such evidence or direct the court from whose decree the appeal is preferred or any other subordinate court to take such evidence and to send it when taken to the court to which the...
- Order 42, rule 29 of Civil Procedure Rules : Limits to be defined and recorded
Where additional evidence is directed or allowed to be taken the court to which the appeal is preferred shall specify the limits to which the evidence is to be confined and record on its proceedings the points so specified.
- Order 42, rule 30 of Civil Procedure Rules : Where court consist of more than one judge
Where the court consists of more than one judge, the decree of the court shall be drawn in accordance with the findings of the majority.
- Order 42, rule 31 of Civil Procedure Rules : What judgment may direct
The judgment may be for confirming, varying or reversing the decree from which the appeal is preferred, or, if the parties to the appeal agree as to the form which the decree in appeal shall take, or as to the order to be made in appeal, the court to which the appeal is preferred may pass a decree...
- Order 42, rule 32 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power of appellate court on appeal
The court to which the appeal is preferred shall have power to pass any decree and make any order which ought to have been passed or made and to pass or make such further or other decree or order as the case may require, and this power may be exercised by the court notwithstanding that the appeal is...
- Order 42, rule 33 of Civil Procedure Rules : Preparation and contents of decree
The decree of the court to which the appeal is preferred shall be dated, drawn up, sealed and signed as directed by rules 7, 8 and 9 of Order 21 with any necessary modifications.
- Order 42, rule 34 of Civil Procedure Rules : Certified copy of decree to be sent to court whose decree appealed from
A copy of the judgment and of the decree, certified by the High Court, or such officer as it appoints in this behalf, shall be sent to the court which passed the decree appealed from, and shall be filed with the original proceedings in the suit, and an entry of the judgment of the court to which the...
- Order 42, rule 35 of Civil Procedure Rules : Dismissal for want of prosecution
(1) Unless within three months after the giving of directions under rule 13 the appeal shall have been set down for hearing by the appellant, the respondent shall be at liberty either to set down the appeal for hearing or to apply by summons for its dismissal for want of prosecution.
(2) If,...
- Order 43, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Appeals from Orders
(1) An appeal shall lie as of right from the following Orders and rules under the provisions of section 75(1)(h) of the Act—
(a) Order 1 (parties to suits);
(b) Order 2 (pleadings generally);
(c) Order 3 (frame and institution of suit);
(d) Order 4, rule 9 (return of plaint);
(e) Order 7,...
- Order 43, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure
The rules of Order 42 shall apply, so far as may be, to appeals from orders.
- Order 43, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Saving
Nothing in this Order shall apply to any adjudication which, as regards the court expressing it, conclusively determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the suit.
- Order 44, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Who may appeal as a pauper
Any person entitled to prefer an appeal, who is unable to pay the fee required for the memorandum of appeal, may present an application accompanied by a memorandum of appeal, and may be allowed to appeal as a pauper, subject in all matters, including the presentation of such application, to the...
- Order 44, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Inquiry into pauperism
The inquiry into the pauperism of the applicant may be made either by the High Court or under the orders of the High Court by the court from whose decision the appeal is preferred:
Provided that, if the applicant was allowed to sue or appeal as a pauper in the court from whose decree the appeal is...
- Order 45, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for review of decree or order
(1) Any person considering himself aggrieved—
(a) by a decree or order from which an appeal is allowed, but from which no appeal has been preferred; or
(b) by a decree or order from which no appeal is hereby allowed, and who from the discovery of new and important matter or evidence which, after...
- Order 45, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : To whom applications for review may be made
(1) An application for review of a decree or order of a court, upon some ground other than the discovery of such new and important matter or evidence as is referred to in rule 1, or the existence of a clerical or arithmetical mistake or error apparent on the face of the decree, shall be made only to...
- Order 45, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : When court may grant or reject application
(1) Where it appears to the court that there is not sufficient ground for a review, it shall dismiss the application.
(2) Where the court is of opinion that the application for review should be granted, it shall grant the same:
Provided that no such application shall be granted on the ground of...
- Order 45, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application where more than one judge hears
(1) Where the application for a review is heard by more than one judge and the court is equally divided the application shall be dismissed.
(2) Where there is a majority, the decision shall be according to the opinion of the majority.
- Order 45, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Re-hearing upon application granted
When an application for review is granted, a note thereof shall be made in the register, and the court may at once re-hear the case or make such order in regard to the re-hearing as it thinks fit.
- Order 45, rule 6 of Civil Procedure Rules : Bar of subsequent applications
No application to review an order made on an application for a review of a decree or order passed or made on a review shall be entertained.
- Order 46, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Parties to a suit may apply for arbitration
Where in any suit all the parties interested who are not under disability agree that any matter in difference between them in such suit shall be referred to arbitration, they may, at any time before judgment is pronounced, apply to the court for an order of reference.
- Order 46, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Appointment of arbitrator
The arbitrator shall be appointed in such manner as may be agreed upon between the parties.
- Order 46, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Form of order
(1) The court shall, by order, refer to the arbitrator the matter in difference which he is required to determine, and shall fix such time as it thinks reasonable for the making of the award, and shall specify such time in the order.
(2) Where a matter is referred to arbitration, the court shall...
- Order 46, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Provisions where two or more arbitrators
(1) Where the reference is to two or more arbitrators provision shall be made in the order for a difference of opinion among the arbitrators—
(a) by the appointment of an umpire; or
(b) by declaring that, if the majority of the arbitrators agree, the decision of the majority shall prevail; or...
- Order 46, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to appoint arbitrator
(1) In any of the following cases, namely—
(a) where the parties cannot agree within thirty days with respect to the appointment of an arbitrator, or the person appointed refuses to accept the office of arbitrator; or
(b) where the arbitrator or umpire—
(i) dies; or
(ii) refuses or neglects...