Vakalatnama for city civil/ district court

Think of a tenant in Vashi who has just received a summons from a civil court. He hires an advocate, signs a sheet of paper in the advocate's office, and goes home. That sheet decides who the court will speak to for the rest of the suit, what the advocate can do without calling him, and when the appointment ends. In a civil suit, where the Code of Civil Procedure controls almost everything, what does the paper have to contain, and what happens if it is wrong?

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In a city civil or district court the vakalatnama is governed by Order III of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908: a pleader may act only under a signed written appointment filed in court, which continues until ended in the ways the rule lists.

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