Order V Rule 23

Duty of Court to which summons is sent

Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

The Court to which a summons is sent under rule 21 or rule 22 shall, upon receipt thereof, proceed as if it had been issued by such Court and shall then return the summons to the Court of issue, together with the record (if any) of its proceedings with regard thereto.

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 23 CPC and Order 5 Rule 23 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

Orders of the courts under it: Order 5 Rule 23 CPC, Order V Rule 23 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.

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