Order XI Rule 3

Costs of interrogatories

Discovery and Inspection, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

In adjusting the costs of the suit inquiry shall at the instance of any party be made into the propriety of exhibiting such interrogatories, and if it is the opinion of the taxing officer or of the Court, either with or without an application for inquiry, that such interrogatories have been exhibited unreasonably, vexatiously, or at improper length, the cost occasioned by the interrogatories and the answers thereto shall be paid in any even by the party in fault.

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XI Rule 3 CPC and Order 11 Rule 3 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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