CPC 10 — Stay of suit

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Statutory text

No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also
directly  and  substantially  in  issue  in  a  previously  instituted  suit  between  the  same  parties,  or  between
parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the same title where such suit is pending in
the  same  or  any  other  Court  in

[India]  have  jurisdiction  to  grant  the  relief  claimed,  or  in  any  Court
beyond the limits of

[India] established or continued by

[the Central Government

***.] and having like
jurisdiction, or before

[the Supreme Court].
Explanation.—The pendency of a suit in a foreign Court does not preclude the Courts in

[India] from trying a suit founded on the same cause of action.

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