Provision Map

A map, not a substitute for the current statute, its amendments, the High Court rules, the court-fee law or the law of limitation.

A note on the provisions that carried this series, for when you need to check one quickly rather than relearn it from the beginning. It is a map, not a substitute for the current statute, its amendments, the relevant High Court rules, court-fee legislation, the limitation schedule, or local filing practice — all of which you must verify at the time, in the court, where you are actually appearing.

Order VI Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure governs material facts in pleadings. Order VI Rule 15 governs the verification of pleadings. Order VII Rule 1 sets out the core particulars every plaint must contain. Order VII Rule 3 governs the identification of immovable property in a suit concerning it. Order VIII Rule 1 sets the ordinary written-statement timeline, subject to the regime actually applicable to the suit. Order VIII Rule 5 governs admissions and denials, and Order VIII Rule 6A governs counter-claims. Order XIV Rule 1 governs the framing of issues. Section 148A of the Code governs the caveat. Order XXIII Rule 3 governs the lawful compromise or adjustment of a suit. Order XXXVII provides the summary procedure, where its conditions are actually met. Order XXXIX Rules 1 to 3 govern temporary injunctions and the immediate procedure that follows one granted without notice. Order XXI governs the execution of decrees and orders. Section 3 of the Limitation Act, 1963 bars proceedings filed after the prescribed period, subject to the Act’s own exceptions. Section 10 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 provides the framework for specific performance. Section 31 governs the cancellation of written instruments. Section 34 governs the declaration of status or right, and the further-relief proviso that goes with it. Sections 37 and 38 provide the temporary and perpetual injunction framework, Section 39 governs mandatory injunctions, Section 40 governs damages in lieu of or in addition to an injunction, and Section 41 sets out the circumstances in which an injunction should be refused even though it might otherwise be available.

None of these provisions were ever meant to be memorised in isolation, the way a list of dates is memorised for an examination and then forgotten. The point of this entire course was never to collect them. It was to recognise, in the moment a real file needs one, exactly when a provision becomes useful — and, just as importantly, why.

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