Order XIII-A Rule 2

Stage for application for summary judgment

Summary Judgment, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

*[2. Stage for application for summary judgment. -- An applicant may apply for summary judgment at any time after summons has been served on the defendant:

Provided that, no application for summary judgment may be made by such applicant after the Court has framed the issues in respect of the suit.]

*. Shall be applicable to commercial disputes of a specified value by Act 4 of 2016, s. 16 and the Sch. (w.e.f. 23-10-2015).

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XIII-A Rule 2 CPC and Order 13 Rule 2 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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