Reading…
Reading…
Documents
11 documents, each with the provision that governs it, what it must contain to be competent, and the ways it actually fails.
The suit itself — the document that starts a civil case and fixes the case you must prove.
Order VII
The defence — and the one document where saying nothing is treated as saying yes.
Order VIII
The defendant suing back inside the same suit — a cross-suit in all but name.
Order VIII Rule 6A
The plaintiff's answer to new matter in the written statement — permitted, but not as of right.
No express provision; filed with the leave of the court
The questions the trial will actually answer — settled from the pleadings, not from the evidence.
Order XIV Rule 1
Your own witness's evidence — now filed on affidavit before anyone speaks.
Order XVIII Rule 4 CPC; Section 143
The other side's witness, tested — and the stage where an unpleaded case dies.
Section 143
The case in writing, on the record — and it must be in before you stand up.
Order XVIII Rule 2(3A)
The hearing itself — where the written case is defended out loud, and time is short.
Order XVIII Rule 2