CPC 137 — Language of subordinate Courts

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Statutory text

(1)  The  language  which,  on  the  commencement  of  this
Code, is the language of any Court subordinate to a High Court shall continue to be the language of such subordinate Court until the State Government otherwise directs.
(2)  The  State  Government  may  declare  what  shall  be  the  language  of  any  such  Court  and  in  what character applications to and proceedings in such Courts shall be written.
(3)  Where  this  Court  requires  or  allows  anything  other  that  the  recording  of  evidence  to  be  done  in
writing in any such Court, such writing may be in English; but if any party or his pleader is unacquainted
with English a translation into the language of the Court shall, at his request, be supplied to him; and the Court shall make such order as it thinks fit in respect of the payment of the costs of such translation.

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