No party to be ordered to appear in person unless resident within certain limits
Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
No party shall be ordered to appear in person unless he resides--
(a) within the local limits of the Court's ordinary original jurisdiction, or
(b) without such limits but at place less than fifty or (where there is railway or steamer communication or other established public conveyance for five-sixths of the distance between the place where he resides and the place where the Court is situate) less than two hundred miles distance from the court-house.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 4 CPC and Order 5 Rule 4 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 5 Rule 4 CPC, Order V Rule 4 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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