Rules as to witnesses to apply to parties summoned
Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Where any party to a suit is required to give evidence or to produce a document, the provisions as to witnesses shall apply to him so far as they are applicable.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XVI Rule 21 CPC and Order 16 Rule 21 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 16 Rule 21 CPC, Order XVI Rule 21 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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