Civil Manual 234 — Section

Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960

Statutory text

(i) Decree shall ordinarily be drawn up within 4 days from the date of the pronouncement of the Judgment or Order; and due intimation thereof shall be given to the lawyers or their Clerks in cases where parties are represented by lawyers :

Provided that in special or complicated cases this time limit may, for reasons to be recorded in writing in the Roznama, be extended by the Presiding Judge.

(ii) The lawyers concerned shall, unless prevented by just or proper cause, sign the decree in token of their approval or file a statement of their objections to the decree as drawn up within four days from the date of the intimation. Where the lawyers fail to sign the decree or file the statements of their objections within the said time, without just or proper cause, the fact may be mentioned in the Roznama and the Presiding Judge may sign the decree although it is not signed by the lawyers.

(iii) The Presiding Judge should ordinarily sign the decree after disposing of the objections, if any, within 10 days from the date of the pronouncement of the judgment.

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