Right to begin
Hearing of the suit and examination of witnesses, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
The plaintiff has the right to begin unless the defendant admits the facts alleged by the plaintiff and contents that either in point of law or on some additional facts alleged by the defendant the plaintiff is not entitled to any part of the relief which he seeks, in which case the defendant has the right to begin.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XVIII Rule 1 CPC and Order 18 Rule 1 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 18 Rule 1 CPC, Order XVIII Rule 1 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
This Order may be one Rule short. India Code publishes the Rules of the First Schedule without recording which Order each one belongs to. We recover that from the Government's own consolidated text of the Code, and for this Order one Rule did not settle beyond doubt. Rather than print it under an Order it might not belong to, it is left out and this note put in its place. Everything shown here is where the Code puts it.
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