Code of Civil Procedure I (including Civil Rules of Practice) (Section 1 to 35B and Order I to XXA)

Unit I

Distinction between Substantive law and Procedural law · Civil and Criminal procedure · Recent trends in Civil Procedure · Significance of Procedural Law for a just Society · History of the Civil Procedure in India · Scheme of the Code of Civil Procedure · Meaning of Suit and essentials of a suit · Definitions · Decree · Judgement · Order · Decree holder · Judgement debtor · Legal Representative · Mesne Profits · Public officer · Hierarchy of civil courts · Place of Suing · Jurisdiction of Civil Courts · Meaning of Jurisdiction · jurisdiction and consent · lack of jurisdiction and irregular exercise of jurisdiction · decision as to jurisdiction · kinds of jurisdiction · Courts to try all suits of a civil nature unless barred

• Definitions
• Concepts: Res-sub judice, Res judicata, set off, counterclaim
• Essentials of a suit
• Cause of action and jurisdiction and its kind
• Place of suing

Unit II

res sub judice and res judicata · General conditions of res judicata · constructive res judicata · res judicata and Estoppel · res judicata between Co-defendants and Co-plaintiffs · Foreign Judgment · Meaning of Foreign judgment · conclusiveness of foreign judgment · its enforcement and execution · Institution of Suit · Parties to suit · joinder, non-joinder and misjoinder of parties · Representative suit · Joinder of causes of action and misjoinder · Frame of Suit · inclusion and splitting of claims · multifariousness

• Concepts: Res-sub judice, Res judicata, set off, counterclaim
• Parties to a suit (Order I –Order III)
• Institution of a suit (Order IV and V)

Unit III

Summons · issue and service of Summons to defendants · Pleadings generally · Rules of pleading · signing and verification · Alternative Pleadings · Construction of pleadings · Plaint: particulars, admission, return and rejection · Written statement: particulars, rules of evidence · set off and Counterclaim: distinction

• Institution of a suit (Order IV and V)
• Pleadings, plaint and written statement (Order VI- Order VIII)

Unit IV

Discovery inspection and production of documents · Interrogatories · privileged documents · Affidavits · Appearance of Parties and Consequences of Non-appearance · Dismissal of suit for default · Ex parte proceedings · Setting aside ex-parte decree · Recognized agents and Pleaders · Trial · summoning and attendance of witnesses · Adjournments · Hearing of suit · framing of issues · kinds of issues · importance of issues · Disposal of suit · judgement and decree · interest · costs

• Appearance of parties and consequence of non-appearance (Order IX)
• Examination of Parties, Interrogatories, Discovery and inspection, Admissions, documents
• Framing of issues, Disposal (Order XIV, XV)
• Trial, Summons, Hearing of suit, evidence, judgment and decree and costs (Order V, Order XVI-Order XXA)

Unit V

Civil Rules of Practice in Kerala · presentation of documents in court · posting of cases · adjournments · interlocutory proceedings · affidavits · trial of suits