No agreement or compromise to be entered in a representative suit without leave of Court
Withdrawal and Adjustment of Suits, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(1) No agreement or compromise in a representative suit shall be entered into without the leave of the Court expressly recorded in the proceedings; and any such agreement or compromise entered into without the leave of the Court as recorded shall be void.
(2) Below granting such leave, the Court shall give notice in such manner as it may think fit to such per o is as may appear to it to be interested in the suit.
Explanation.--In this rule, "representative suit" means,--
(a) a suit under Section 91 or Section 92,
(b) a suit under rule 8 of Order I,
(c) a suit in which the manager of an undivided Hindu family sues or is sued as representing the other members of the family,
1(d) any other suit in which the decree passed may, by virtue of the provisions of this Code or of any other law for the time being in force, bind any person who is not named as party to the suit.]
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XXIII Rule 3B CPC and Order 23 Rule 3B CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 23 Rule 3B CPC, Order XXIII Rule 3B CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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