Power to dispense with notices in case of deceased parties
Full Text
Nothing in these rules requiring any notice to be served on or given to an opposite party or respondent shall be deemed to require any notice to be served on or given to the legal representative of any deceased opposite party or deceased respondent in a case, where such opposite party or respondent did not appear either at the hearing in the Court whose decree is complained of or at any proceedings subsequent to the decree of that Court:
Provided that notices under sub-rule (2) of rule 3 and under rule 8 shall be given by affixing the same in some conspicuous place in the court-house of the Judge of the district in which the suit was originally brought, and by publication in such newspapers as the Court may direct.
Plain English Summary
Dispenses with individual notice to the legal representatives of deceased respondents who remained ex parte in the High Court, substituting service via court-house affixation and newspaper publication.
Key Legal Elements
- Inserted by Act 26 of 1920: Pragmatic solution to eliminate delays caused by tracing heirs of non-contesting defendants.
- Pre-Condition: Deceased party must have remained ex parte in the High Court proceedings.
- Substituted Notice Proviso: Notices under Rule 3(2) (show cause for certificate) and Rule 8 (admission) served via district court-house affixation and newspaper publication.
- Abatement Averted: Prevents the appeal from abating due to non-substitution of legal representatives of proforma parties.
Practical Note
Preventing Abatement Against Ex-Parte Respondents: 1. Strategic Protection Against Abatement: In multi-party civil appeals (e.g. partition or land acquisition disputes), tracing legal representatives of distant co-defendants who never contested in the High Court can stall appeals for decades. Counsel should invoke Rule 9A to dispense with individual service, substituting it with affixation on the district court notice board and local newspaper publication. 2. Conforming with Order XXII: Rule 9A read with Rule 15(4) creates an exception to the general rigour of abatement under Order XXII CPC.
हिंदी पाठ
इन नियमों में किसी विरोधी पक्षकार या प्रत्यर्थी पर किसी सूचना की तामील किए जाने या दिए जाने की अपेक्षा करने वाली किसी बात के बारे में यह नहीं समझा जाएगा कि वह ऐसे मामले में किसी मृत विरोधी पक्षकार या मृत प्रत्यर्थी के विधिक प्रतिनिधि पर किसी सूचना की तामील किए जाने या दिए जाने की अपेक्षा करती है, जहां ऐसा विरोधी पक्षकार या प्रत्यर्थी न तो उस न्यायालय की सुनवाई में जिसकी डिक्री के विरुद्ध परिवाद है, और न ही उस न्यायालय की डिक्री के पश्चातवर्ती किन्हीं कार्यवाहियों में उपसंजात हुआ था:
परंतु नियम 3 के उप-नियम (2) के अधीन और नियम 8 के अधीन सूचनाएं उस जिले के न्यायाधीश के न्यायालय-भवन में, जिसमें वाद मूलतः लाया गया था, किसी सहजदृश्य स्थान पर उन्हें चिपकाकर और ऐसे समाचारपत्रों में प्रकाशन द्वारा दी जाएंगी जैसा न्यायालय निदेश दे।