Person served to sign acknowledgement
Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Where the serving officer delivers or tenders a copy of the summons to the defendant personally, or to an agent or other person on his behalf, he shall require the signature of the person to whom the copy is so delivered or tendered to an acknowledgment of service endorsed on the original summons.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 16 CPC and Order 5 Rule 16 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 5 Rule 16 CPC, Order V Rule 16 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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