Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
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3. Rejection of irrelevant or inadmissible documents.
4. Endorsements on documents admitted in evidence.
5. Endorsements on copies of admitted entries in books, accounts and records.
6. Endorsements on documents rejected an inadmissible in evidence.
7. Recording of admitted and return of rejected documents.
8. Court may order any document to be impounded.
9. Return of admitted documents.
10. Court may sent for papers from its own records or from other Courts.
11. Provisions as to documents applied to material objects.
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ORDER XIV
settlement of issues and determination of suit on issues of law or on
Issues agreed upon
1. Framing of issues.
2. Court to pronounce judgment on all issues.
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3. Materials from which issues may be framed.
4. Court may examine witnesses or documents before framing issues.
5. Power to amend and strike out, issues.
6. Questions of fact or law may by agreement be stated in form of issues.
7. Court, if satisfied that agreement was executed in good faith, may pronounce judgment.
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ORDER XV
Disposal of the Suit at the First Hearing
1. Parties not at issue.
2. One of several defendants not at issue.
3. Parties at issue.
4. Failure to produce evidence.
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ORDER XVI
Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses
1. List of witnesses and summons to witnesses.
1A. Production of witnesses without summons.
2. Expenses of witness to be paid into Court on applying for summons.
Experts.
Scale of expenses.
Expenses to be directly paid to witnesses.
3. Tender of expenses to witness.
4. Procedure where insufficient sum paid in.
Expenses of witnesses detained more than one day.
5. Time, place and purpose of attendance to be specified in summons.
6. Summons to produce document.
7. Power to require persons present in Court to give evidence or produce document.
7A. Summons given to the party for service.
8. Summons how served.
9. Time for serving summons.
10. Procedure where witness fails to comply with summons.
11. If witness appears, attachment may be withdrawn.
12. Procedure if witness fails to appear.
13. Mode of attachment.
14. Court may of its own accord summon as witnesses strangers to suit.
15. Duty of persons summoned to give evidence or produce document.
16. When they may depart.
17. Application of rules 10 to 13.
18. Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document.
19. No witness to be ordered to attend in person unless resident within certain limits.
20. Consequence of refusal of party to give evidence when called on by Court.
21. Rules as to witnesses to apply to parties summoned.
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ORDER XVI-A
Attendance of Witnesses Confined or Detained in Prisons
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1. Definitions.
2. Power to require attendance of prisoners to give evidence.
3. Expenses to be paid into Court.
4. Power of State Government to exclude certain persons from the operation of rule 2.
5. Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain cases.
6. Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody.
7. Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison.
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ORDER XVII
Adjournment
1. Court may grant time and adjourn hearing.
Costs of adjournment.
2. Procedure if parties fail to appear on day fixed.
3. Court may proceed notwithstanding either party fails to produce evidence, etc.
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ORDER XVIII
Hearing of the Suit and Examination of Witnesses
1. Right to begin.
2. Statement and production of evidence.
3. Evidence where several issues.
3A. Party to appear before other witnesses.
4. Recording of evidence.
5. How evidence shall be taken in appealable cases.
6. When deposition to be interpreted.
7. Evidence under section 138.
8. Memorandum when evidence not taken down by Judge.
9. When evidence may be taken in English.
10. Any particular question and answer may be taken down.
11. Questions objected to and allowed by Court.
12. Remarks on demeanour of witnesses.