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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XXXI Suits by or against trustees, executors and administrators

Order XXXI Rule 2: Joinder of trustees, executors and administrators

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where there are several trustees, executors or administrators, they shall all be made parties to a suit against one or more of them:

Provided that the executors who have not proved their testator’s will, and trustees, executors and administrators outside 1[India], need not be made parties.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 3, for “the States”.

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