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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XIV Settlement of Issues and Determination of Suit on Issues of Law or on Issues agreed upon

Order XIV Rule 5: Power to amend and strike out, issues

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

1[(1) The Court may at any time before passing a decree amend the issues or frame additional issues on such terms as it thinks fit, and all such amendments or additional issues as may be necessary for determining the matters in controversy between the parties shall be so made or framed.

(2) The Court may also, at any time before passing a decree, strike out any issues that appear to it to be wrongly framed or introduced.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 22 of 2002, s. 11, for rule 5 (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).

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