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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XXXIII Suits by indigent persons

Order XXXIII Rule 10: Costs where 1[indigent person] succeeds

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where the plaintiff succeeds in the suit, the Court shall calculate the amount of court-fees which would have been paid by the plaintiff if he had not been permitted to sue as 1[an indigent person]; such amount shall be recoverable by the 2[State Government] from any party ordered by the decree to pay the same and shall be a first charge, on the subject-matter of the suit.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 81, for “pauper” (w.e.f. -2-1977).
  2. 2.Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government” which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Government”.

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