Order VIII Rule 7

Defence or set-off founded upon separate grounds

Written statement, set-off and counter-claim, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of defence or set-off 1[or counter-claim] founded upon separate and distinct facts, they shall be stated, as far as may be, separately and distinctly.

1. Ins. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 58 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

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It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order VIII Rule 7 CPC and Order 8 Rule 7 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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