CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE AND LIMITATION ACT
Kakatiya University · LL.B. Semester 5 · P-I
Unit I
Codification of Civil Procedure and Introduction to CPC · Principal features of the Civil Procedure Code · Suits · Parties to Suit · Framing of Suit —Institution of Suits · Bars of Suit · Doctrines of Sub Judice and Res Judicata · Place of Suing · Transfer of suits · Territorial Jurisdiction · ‘Cause of Action’ and Jurisdictional Bars · Summons · Service of Foreign summons
Unit II
Pleadings · Contents of pleadings · Forms of Pleading · Striking out / Amendment of Pleadings · Plaint— Essentials of Plaint · Return of Plaint—Rejection of Plaint—Production and marking of Documents— Written Statement · Counter claim · Set off · Framing of issues
Unit III
Appearance and Examination of parties & Adjournments · Ex-parte Procedure · Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses · Examination · Admissions · Production, Impounding, Return of Documents · Hearing · Affidavit —Judgment and Decree · Concepts of Judgment, Decree, and Interim Orders and Stay · Injunctions · Appointment of Receivers and Commissions · Costs -- Execution · Concept of Execution · General Principles of Execution · Power of Execution · Power of Executing Courts · Procedure for Execution · Modes of Execution -- Arrest and detention · Attachment and Sale
- Appearance of parties and consequence of non-appearance (Order IX)
- Examination of Parties, Interrogatories, Discovery and inspection, Admissions, documents
- Trial, Summons, Hearing of suit, evidence, judgment and decree and costs (Order V, Order XVI-Order XXA)
- Meaning of execution
- Mode of execution and stay of execution (Order XXI)
- Arrest, detention and attachment (Order XXI and XXXVIII)
- Incidental proceeding, Payment into court, security costs and commissions (Orders XXIV
- Interim orders, Temporary injunction (Order. XXXIX)
- Appointment of Receivers (Order XV)
Unit IV
Suits in Particular Cases · Suits by or against Government · Suits relating to public matters;— Suits by or against minors, persons with unsound mind, · Suits by indigent persons -- Interpleader suits · Incidental and supplementary proceedings · Appeals, Reference, Review and Revision · Appeals from Original Decrees · Appeals from Appellate Decrees · Appeals from Orders · General Provisions Relating to Appeals
Unit V
Law of Limitation · Concept of Limitation · Object of limitation · General Principles of Limitation · Extension · Condonation of delay · Sufficient Cause · Computation of limitation -- Acknowledgment and Part-payment · Legal Disability · Provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963