Subsequent pleadings
Written statement, set-off and counter-claim, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
1[9. Subsequent pleadings.--No pleading subsequent to the written statement of a defendant other than by way of defence to set-off or counter-claim shall be presented except by the leave of the Court and upon such terms as the Court thinks fit; but the Court may at any time require a written statement or additional written statement from any of the parties and fix a time of not more than thirty days for presenting the same.]
1. Subs. by Act 22 of 2002, s. 9, for rules 9 and 10 (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order VIII Rule 9 CPC and Order 8 Rule 9 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 8 Rule 9 CPC, Order VIII Rule 9 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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