Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation

Osmania University · LL.B. Semester 5 · P-I

Unit I

Codification of Civil Procedure and Introduction to CPC · Principal features ofthe 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 · Counterclaim · Set off · Application of Sec.89 · 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

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-- Inter pleaded 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 · Condo nation of delay · Sufficient Cause · Computation of limitation · Acknowledgment and Part · payment- Legal Disability · Provisions of the Limitation Act,1963(Excluding Schedule)