Special suits — Orders XXVII to XXXIV

Suing a neighbour is straightforward: name him, serve him, and go ahead. Now suppose the defendant is the State of Maharashtra, a partnership firm, a company, a seven-year-old, or a bank holding your mortgaged flat. Who do you name? Who signs the plaint? Who accepts the summons? The Code gives each of these parties its own Order, with its own rules on who appears, who signs, and how the decree is passed. This topic maps those Orders, XXVII to XXXIV, so that you know which set of rules to reach for.

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Orders XXVII to XXXIV modify the ordinary suit procedure for particular parties and subjects: the Government and public officers, military personnel, corporations, firms, trustees, minors and persons of unsound mind, indigent persons, and mortgages of immovable property.

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