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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XXII Death, Marriage and Insolvency or Parties

Order XXII Rule 10A: Duty of pleader to communicate to Court death of a party

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

1[Wherever a pleader appearing for a party to the suit comes to know of the death of that party, he shall inform the Court about it, and the Court shall thereupon give notice of such death to the other party, and, for this purpose, the contract between the pleader and the deceased party shall be deemed to subsist.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 73 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

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