Inspection of documents referred to in pleadings or affidavits
Discovery and Inspection, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Every party to a suit shall be entitled 1[at or before the settlement of issues] to give notice to any other party, in whose pleadings or affidavits reference is made to any document, 2[or who has entered any document in any list annexed to his pleadings,] to produce such document for the inspection of the party giving such notice, or of his pleader, and to permit him or them to take copies thereof; and any party not complying with such notice shall not afterwards be at liberty to put any such document in evidence on his behalf in such suit unless he shall satisfy the Court that such document relates only to his own title, he being a defendant to the suit, or that he had some other cause or excuse which the Court shall deem sufficient for not complying with such notice, in which case the Court may allow the same to be put in evidence on such terms as to costs and otherwise as the Court shall think fit.
1. Subs. by Act 46 of 1999, s. 21, for "at any time" (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).
2. Ins. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 61 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XI Rule 15 CPC and Order 11 Rule 15 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 11 Rule 15 CPC, Order XI Rule 15 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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