Order XXI Rule 5

Mode of transfer

Execution of Decrees and Orders, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

1 [5. Mode of transfer.--Where a decree is to be sent for execution to another Court, the Court which passed such decree shall send the decree directly to such other Court whether or not such other Court is situated in the same State, but the Court to which the decree is sent for execution shall, if it has no jurisdiction to execute the decree, send it to the Court having such jurisdiction.]

1. Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 72, for rule 5 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XXI Rule 5 CPC and Order 21 Rule 5 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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