Order XXVI Rule 9

Commissions to make local investigations

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

In any suit in which the Court deems a local investigation to be requisite or proper for the purpose of elucidating any matter in dispute, or of ascertaining the market-value of any property, or the amount of any mesne profits or damages or annual net profits, the Court may issue a commission to such person as it thinks fit directing him to make such investigation and to report thereon to the Court:

Provided that, where the State Government has made rules as to the persons to whom such commission shall be issued, the Court shall be bound by such rules.

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XXVI Rule 9 CPC and Order 26 Rule 9 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

Orders of the courts under it: Order 26 Rule 9 CPC, Order XXVI Rule 9 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.

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