Procedure where defendant appears on day of adjourned hearing and assigns good cause for previous non-appearance
Appearance of parties and consequence of non-appearance, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Where the Court has adjourned the hearing of the suit, ex parte, and the defendant, at or before such hearing appears and assigns good cause for his previous non-appearance, he may, upon such terms as the Court directs as to costs or otherwise, be heard in answer to the suit as if he had appeared on the day fixed for his appearance.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order IX Rule 7 CPC and Order 9 Rule 7 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 9 Rule 7 CPC, Order IX Rule 7 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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