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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XVIII Hearing of the suit and examination of witnesses

Order XVIII Rule 13: Memorandum of evidence in unappealable cases

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

1[ 2In cases in which an appeal is not allowed, it shall not be necessary to take down or dictate or record the evidence of the witnesses at length; but the Judge, as the examination of each witness proceeds shall make in writing, or dictate directly on the typewriter, or cause to be mechanically recorded, a memorandum of the substance of what the witness deposes, and such memorandum shall be signed by the Judge or otherwise authenticated, and shall form part of the record.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 69, for the rule 13 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
  2. 2.The provisions of rules 11, 13, 14, 15, so far as they relate to the manner of taking evidence, are not applicable to the Chief Court of Oudh, see the Oudh Courts Act, 1925 (U. P. Act 4 of 1925), s. 16 (2).

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