12/04/2025 The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

( ACT NO. V OF 1908 )

[ 21st March, 1908 ]

♣An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the Procedure of the
Courts of Civil Judicature.

WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the

procedure of the Courts of Civil Judicature; It is hereby enacted as follows:-

PRELIMINARY

Short title, 1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
commencement
and (2) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1909.
extent.
(3) It extends to the whole of Bangladesh.

Definitions 2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or

context,-

(1) "Code" includes rules:

(2) "decree" means the formal expression of an adjudication which,

so far as regards the Court expressing it, conclusively determines

the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in
controversy in the suit and may be either preliminary or final. It shall
be deemed to include the rejection of a plaint and the determination
of any question within 1[* * *] section 144, but shall not include-

(a) any adjudication from which an appeal lies as an appeal from an

order, or
(b) any order of dismissal for default.

Explanation.-A decree is preliminary when further proceedings have

to be taken before the suit can be completely disposed of. It is final
when such adjudication completely disposes of the suit. It may be

partly preliminary and partly final:

(3) "decree-holder" means any person in whose favour a decree has

been passed or an order capable of execution has been made:

(4) "district" means the local limits of the jurisdiction of a principal

Civil Court of original jurisdiction (hereinafter called a "District
Court"), and includes the local limits of the ordinary original civil

jurisdiction of the High Court Division:

(5) "foreign Court" means a Court situate beyond the limits of

Bangladesh which has no authority in Bangladesh and is not

established or continued by the Government:

(6) "foreign judgment" means the judgment of a foreign Court:

(7) "Government Pleader" includes any officer appointed by the

Government to perform all or any of the functions expressly imposed

by this Code on the Government Pleader and also any pleader

acting under the directions of the Government Pleader:

(8) "Judge" means the presiding officer of a Civil Court:

(9) "Judgment" means the statement given by the Judge of the

grounds of a decree or order:

(10) "Judgment-debtor" means any person against whom a decree

has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made:

(11) "legal representative" means a person who in law represents

the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who

intermeddles with the estate of the deceased and where a party

sues or is sued in a representative character the person on whom

the estate devolves on the death of the party so suing or sued:

(12) "mesne profits" of property means those profits which the

person in wrongful possession of such property actually received or

might with ordinary diligence have received therefrom, together with

interest on such profits but shall not include profits due to

improvements made by the person in wrongful possession:

(13) "movable property" includes growing crops:

(14) "order" means the formal expression of any decision of a Civil

Court which is not a decree:

(15) "pleader" means any person entitled to appear and plead for

another in Court 2[* * *]:

(16) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules:

(17) "public officer" means a person falling under any of the

following descriptions, namely:-

(a) every Judge;

(b) every member of the Civil Service of 3[The Republic];

(c) every commissioned or gazetted officer in the military, naval or

air forces of Bangladesh while in the service of the 4[Republic];

(d) every officer of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such

officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to

make, authenticate or keep any document, or to take charge or

dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to

administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order, in the

Court, and every person especially authorised by a Court of Justice

to perform any of such duties;

(e) every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is

empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;

(f) every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer,
 to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring

offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or

convenience;

(g) every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive,

keep or expend any property on behalf of the Government, or to

make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the

Government, or to execute any revenue-process, or to investigate,

or to report on, any matter affecting the pecuniary interest of the

Government, or to make, authenticate or keep any document

relating to the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to prevent

the infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests

of the Government; and

(h) every officer in the service or pay of the 5

[Republic], or

remunerated by fees or commission for the performance of any

public duty:

(18) "rules" means rules and forms contained in the First Schedule

or made under section 122 or section 125:

(19) "share in a corporation" shall be deemed to include stock,

debenture stock, debentures or bonds: and

(20) "signed", save in the case of a judgment or decree, includes

stamped.

Subordination 3. For the purposes of this Code, the District Court is subordinate to
of Courts.
the High Court Division, and every Civil Court of a grade inferior to
that of a District Court and every Court of Small Causes is

subordinate to the High Court Division and District Court.

Savings 4.(1) In the absence of any specific provision to the contrary, nothing

in this Code shall be deemed to limit or otherwise affect any special

 6
[* * *] law now in force or any special jurisdiction or power

conferred, or any special form of procedure prescribed, by or under

any other law for the time being in force.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the

proposition contained in sub-section (1), nothing in this Code shall

be deemed to limit or otherwise affect any remedy which a land-

holder or landlord may have under any law for the time being in

force for the recovery of rent of agricultural land from the produce of
such land.

Application 5.(1) Where any Revenue Courts are governed by the provisions of
of the
Code of this Code in those matters of procedure upon which any special
Revenue enactment applicable to them is silent, the Government may, by
Courts.
notification in the official Gazette, declare that any portions of those

provisions which are not expressly made applicable by this Code

shall not apply to those Courts, or shall only apply to them with such
notifications as the Government may prescribe.

(2) "Revenue Court" in sub-section (1) means a Court having

jurisdiction under any 7 [* * *] law to entertain suits or other

proceedings relating to the rent, revenue or profits of land used for

agricultural purposes, but does not include a Civil Court having

original jurisdiction under this Code to try such suits or proceedings

as being suits or proceedings of a civil nature.

Pecuniary 6. Save in so far as is otherwise expressly provided, nothing herein

Jurisdiction.
contained shall operate to give any Court jurisdiction over suits the
amount or value of the subject-matter of which exceeds the

pecuniary limits (if any) of its ordinary jurisdiction.

Small 7. The following provisions shall not extend to Courts constituted

Cause
Courts. under the 8[* * *] Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, or to Courts

exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes under the said

Act, that is to say,-

(a) so much of the body of the Code as relates to-

(i) suits excepted from the cognizance of a Court of Small Causes;

(ii) the execution of decrees in such suits;

(iii) the execution of decrees against immovable property; and

(b) the following sections, that is to say,-

section 9,

sections 91 and 92,

sections 94 and 95 so far as they authorise or relate to-

(i) orders for the attachment of immovable

property,

(ii) injunctions,

(iii) the appointment of a receiver of immovable property, or

(iv) the interlocutory orders referred to in clause (e) of section 94;

and

sections 96 to 112 and 115.

[Omitted] 8. [Omitted by the Adaptation of Central Acts and Ordinance Order,

1949].

PART I
SUITS IN GENERAL

Jurisdiction of the Courts and Res Judicata

Courts to 9. The Courts shall (subject to the provisions herein contained) have
try all civil
suits jurisdiction to try all suits of a civil nature excepting suits of which
unless their cognizance is either expressly or impliedly barred.
barred.
Explanation.-A suit in which the right to property or to an office is
contested is a suit of a civil nature, notwithstanding that such right

may depend entirely on the decision of questions as to religious

rites or ceremonies.

Stay of 10. No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the
suit.
matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a

previously instituted suit between the same parties, or between

parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the
same title where such suit is pending in the same or any other Court

in Bangladesh having jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in

any Court beyond the limits of Bangladesh established or continued

by the Government and having like jurisdiction, or before the

Supreme Court.

Explanation.-The pendency of a suit in a foreign Court does not

preclude the Court in Bangladesh from trying a suit founded on the

same cause of action.

Res 11. No Court shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly
Judicata
and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in

issue in a former suit between the same parties, or between parties

under whom they or any of them claim, litigating under the same
title, in a court competent to try such subsequent suit or the suit in

which such issue has been subsequently raised, and has been
heard and finally decided by such Court.

Explanation I.-The expression "former suit" shall denote a suit which

has been decided prior to the suit in question whether or not it was

instituted prior thereto.

Explanation II.-For the purposes of this section, the competence of a

Court shall be determined irrespective of any provisions as to a right
 of appeal from the decision of such Court.

Explanation III.-The matter above referred to must in the former suit

have been alleged by one party and either denied or admitted,

expressly or impliedly, by the other.

Explanation IV.-Any matter which might and ought to have been

made ground of defence or attack in such former suit shall be
deemed to have been a matter directly and substantially in issue in

such suit.

Explanation V.-Any relief claimed in the plaint, which is not expressly

granted by the decree, shall, for the purposes of this section, be

deemed to have been refused.

Explanation VI.-Where persons litigate bona fide in respect of a

public right or of a private right claimed in common for themselves

and others, all persons interested in such right shall, for the

purposes of this section, be deemed to claim under the persons so

litigating.

Bar to 12. Where a plantiff is precluded by rules from instituting a further

further
suit. suit in respect of any particular cause of action, he shall not be
entitled to institute a suit in respect of such cause of action in any

Court to which this Code applies.

When 13. A foreign judgment shall be conclusive as to any matter thereby

foreign
judgment directly adjudicated upon between the same parties or between
not parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the
conclusive.
same title except-

(a) where it has not been pronounced by a Court of competent

jurisdiction;

(b) where it has not been given on the merits of the case;
 (c) where it appears on the face of the proceedings to be founded
on an incorrect view of international law or a refusal to recognise the

law of Bangladesh in cases in which such law is applicable;

(d) where the proceedings in which the judgment was obtained are
opposed to natural justice;

(e) where it has been obtained by fraud;

(f) where it sustains a claim founded on a breach of any law in force

in Bangladesh.

Presumption 14. The Court shall presume, upon the production of any document
as to
foreign purporting to be a certified copy of a foreign judgment, that such
judgments. judgment was pronounced by a Court of competent jurisdiction,

unless the contrary appears on the record; but such presumption

may be displaced by proving want of jurisdiction.

Place of Suing

Court in 15. Every suit shall be instituted in the Court of the lowest grade
which
suits to be competent to try it.
instituted.

Suits to be 16. Subject to the pecuniary or other limitations prescribed by any

instituted
where law, suits-
subject- (a) for the recovery of immovable property with or without rent or
matter
situate. profits,

(b) for the partition of immovable property,

(c) for foreclosure, sale or redemption in the case of a mortgage of

or charge upon immovable property,

(d) for the determination of any other right to or interest in

immovable property,
 (e) for compensation for wrong to immovable property,

(f) for the recovery of movable property actually under distraint or

attachment,

shall be instituted in the Court within the local limits of whose

jurisdiction the property is situate, or, in the case of suits referred to

in clause (c), at the place where the cause of action has wholly or
partly arisen:

Provided that a suit to obtain relief respecting, or compensation for

wrong to, immovable property held by or on behalf of the defendant

may, where the relief sought can be entirely obtained through his
personal obedience, be instituted either in the Court within the local
limits of whose jurisdiction the property is situate, or, in the case of

suits referred to in clause (c), at the place where the cause of action
has wholly or partly arisen, or in the Court within the local limits of

whose jurisdiction the defendant actually and voluntarily resides, or

carries on business, or personally works for gain.

Explanation.-In this section "property' means property situate in

Bangladesh.

Suits for 17. Where a suit is to obtain relief respecting, or compensation for
immovable
property wrong to, immovable property situate within the jurisdiction of
situate different Courts, the suit may be instituted in any Court within the
within
local limits of whose jurisdiction any portion of the property is
jurisdiction
of situate:
different
Courts. Provided that, in respect of the value of the subject-matter of the
suit, the entire claim is cognizable by such Court

Place of 18.(1) Where it is alleged to be uncertain within the local limits of the
institution
of suit jurisdiction of which of two or more Courts any immovable property
where
local limits is situate, any one of those Courts may, if satisfied that there is
of
jurisdiction ground for the alleged uncertainly, record a statement to that effect
of Courts and thereupon proceed to entertain and dispose of any suit relating
are
to that property, and its decree in the suit shall have the same effect
uncertain.
as if the property were situate within the local limits of its jurisdiction:

Provided that the suit is one with respect to which the Court is
competent as regards the nature and value of the suit to exercise

jurisdiction.

(2) Where a statement has not been recorded under sub-section (1),
and an objection is taken before an appellate or revisional Court that

a decree or order in a suit relating to such property was made by a

Court not having jurisdiction where the property is situate, the

appellate or revisional Court shall not allow the objection unless in

its opinion there was, at the time of the institution of the suit, no
reasonable ground for uncertainly as to the Court having jurisdiction

with respect thereto and there has been a consequent failure of

justice.

Suits for 19. Where a suit is for compensation for wrong done to the person
compensation
for wrongs or to movable property, if the wrong was done within the local limits
to person of the jurisdiction of one Court and the defendant resides, or carries
or
on business, or personally works for gain, within the local limits of
movables.
the jurisdiction of another Court, the suit may be instituted at the
option of the plantiff in either of the said Courts.

Illustrations

(a) A, residing in 9[Chittagong] beats B in Dhaka.

B may sue A either in Dhaka or in 10[Chittagong].

(b) A, residing in 11 [Chittagong] publishes in Dhaka statements

defamatory of B. B may sue A either in Dhaka, or in 12[Chittagong].

Others 20. Subject to the limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted
suits to be
instituted in a Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction.
where (a) the defendant, or each of the defendants where there are more
defendants
reside or than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually or
cause of voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for
action
arises. gain; or

(b) any of the defendants, where there are more than one, at the
time of the commencement of the suit, actually or voluntarily
resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain,
provided that in such case either the leave of the Court is given, or
the defendants who do not reside, or carry on business, or

personally work for gain, as aforesaid, acquiesce in such institution;

or

(c) the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises.

Explanation I.-Where a person has a permanent dwelling at one

place and also a temporary residence at another place, he shall be

deemed to reside at both places in respect of any cause of action
arising at the place where he has such temporary residence.

Explanation II.-A Corporation shall be deemed to carry on business

at its sole or principal office in Bangladesh or, in respect of any
cause of action arising at any place where it has also a subordinate
office, at such place.

Illustrations

(a) A is a tradesman in Dhaka. B carries on business in

13
[Chittagong]. B, by his agent in Dhaka, buys goods of A and
requests A to deliver them to the 14 [Bangladesh Biman]. A delivers
the goods accordingly in Dhaka. A may sue B for the price of the
goods either in Dhaka, where the cause of action has arisen, or in
 15 [Chittagong], where B carries on business.

(b) A resides at 16 [Cox's Bazar], B at Dhaka and C at 17 [Chittagong].

A, B and C being together at 18 [Khulna], B and C make a joint
promissiory note payable on demand, and deliver it to A. A may sue

B and C 19[at Khulna], where the cause of action arose. He may also
sue them at Dhaka, where B resides, or at 20
[Chittagong], where C
resides; but in each of these cases, if the non-resident defendant
objects, the suit cannot proceed without the leave of the Court.

Objections 21. No objection as to the place of suing shall be allowed by any

to
jurisdiction. appellate or revisional Court unless such objection was taken in the
Court of first instance at the earliest possible opportunity and in all

cases where issues are settled at or before such settlement, and

unless there has been a consequent failure of justice.

Power to 22. Where a suit may be instituted in any one of two or 22. Where a
transfer
suits suit may be instituted in any one of two or more Courts and is
which may instituted in one of such Courts, any defendant, after notice to the
be
other parties, may, at the earliest possible opportunity and in all
instituted
in more cases where issues are settled at or before such settlement, apply
than one
to have the suit transferred to another Court, and the Court to which
Court.
such application is made, after considering the objections of the
other parties (if any), shall determine in which of the several Courts
having jurisdiction the suit shall proceed.

To what 23.(1) Where the several Courts having jurisdiction are subordinate
Court
application to the same Appellate Court, an application under section 22 shall
lies. be made to the Appellate Court.

(2) Where such Courts are subordinate to different Appellate Courts

21 [* * *], the application shall be made to the 22 [* * *] High Court
 Division.

(3) [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws

(Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

General 24.(1) On the application of any of the parties and after notice to the
power of
transfer parties and after hearing such of them as desire to be heard, or of
and its own motion without such notice, the High Court Division or the
withdrawal.
District Court may at any stage-

(a) transfer any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending before it

for trial or disposal to any Court subordinate to it and competent to

try or dispose of the same, or

(b) withdraw any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending in any

Court subordinate to it, and

(i) try or dispose of the same; or

(ii) transfer the same for trial or disposal to any Court subordinate to
it and competent to try or dispose of the same; or

(iii) retransfer the same for trial or disposal to the Court from which it
was withdrawn.

(2) Where any suit or proceeding has been transferred or withdrawn

under sub-section (1), the Court which thereafter tries such suit may,
subject to any special directions in the case of any order of transfer,

either retry it or proceed from the point at which it was transferred or

withdrawn.

(3) For the purposes of this section, Courts of Additional and

Assistant Judges shall be deemed to be subordinate to the District
Court.

(4) The Court trying any suit transferred or withdrawn under this
section from a Court of Small Causes shall, for the purposes of such
suit, be deemed to be a Court of Small Causes.
Appearance 23 [24A.(1) Where any suit is transferred under section 22, or any
of parties
on suit, appeal or other proceeding is transferred or withdrawn under
transfer of sub-section (1) of section 24 on the application of a party, the Court
suit, etc.
ordering the transfer or withdrawal shall fix a date for the
appearance of the parties before itself, if the suit, appeal or other
proceeding is to be tried or disposed of by itself, or before the Court
to which the case is so transferred.

(2) Where any suit, appeal or other proceeding is transferred from

one Court to another, otherwise than on the application of a party,
the parties thereto shall appear before the Court from which the suit,
appeal or other proceedings is to be transferred, on the day already

fixed for their appearance before that Court, and such Court shall
then communicate the order of transfer to such parties and direct
them to appear before the Court to which the suit, appeal or other
proceeding is to be transferred, either on the same day, or on such
earliest day as may be reasonable having regard to the distance at

which the other Court is located.]

[Omitted] 25. [Omitted by the Schedule of the Central Laws (Statute Reform)

Ordinance, 1960 (Ordinance No. XXI of 1960).]

Institution of Suits

Institution 26. Every suit shall be instituted by the presentation of a plaint or in

of suits.
such other manner as may be prescribed

Summons and Discovery

Summons 27. Where a suit has been duly instituted, a summons may be
to
defendants. issued to the defendant to appear and answer the claim and may be
 served in manner prescribed.

[Omitted] 28. [Omitted by the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration)

Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973), section 3 and 2nd Schedule.]

Service of 29. Summonses and other processes issued by any Civil or

foreign
summonses. Revenue Court situate outside Bangladesh may be sent to the
Courts in Bangladesh and served as if they were summonses
issued by such Courts:

Provided that the 24 [Government] has by notification in the official

Gazette declared the provisions of this section to apply to such

Courts.

Power to 30. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed,

order
discovery the Court may, at any time, either of its own motion or on the
and the application of any party,-
like.
(a) make such orders as may be necessary or reasonable in all
matters relating to the delivery and answering of interrogatories, the
admission of documents and facts, and the discovery, inspection,
production, impounding and return of documents or other material

objects producible as evidence;

(b) issue summonses to persons whose attendance is required

either to give evidence or to produce documents or such other

objects as aforesaid;

(c) order any fact to be proved by affidavit.

Summons 31. The provisions in sections 27, 28 and 29 shall apply to

to witness.
summonses to give evidence or to produce documents or other
material objects.

Penalty for 32. The Court may compel the attendance of any person to whom a
default. summons has been issued under section 30 and for that purpose
may-

(a) issue a warrant for his arrest;

(b) attach and sell his property;

(c) impose a fine upon him not exceeding five hundred Taka;

(d) order him to furnish security for his appearance and in default

commit him to the civil prison.

Judgment and Decree.

Judgment 33. The Court, after the case has been heard, shall pronounce
and
decree. judgment, and on such judgment a decree shall follow.

Interest

Interest 34.(1) Where and in so far as a decree is for the payment of money,
the Court may, in the decree, order interest at such rate as the Court
deems reasonable to be paid on the principal sum adjudged, from
the date of the suit to the date of the decree, in addition to any

interest adjudged on such principal sum for any period prior to the
institution of the suit, with further interest at such rate as the Court
deems reasonable on the aggregate sum so adjudged, from the
date of the decree to the date of payment, or to such earlier date as
the Court thinks fit.

2) Where such a decree is silent with respect to the payment of

further interest on such aggregate sum as aforesaid from the date of

the decree to the date of payment or other earlier date, the Court
shall be deemed to have refused such interest, and a separate suit
therefor shall not lie.
 Costs

Costs 35.(1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be

prescribed, and to the provisions of any law for the time being in

force, the costs of and incident to all suits shall be in the discretion
of the Court, and the Court shall have full power to determine by
whom or out of what property and to what extent such costs are to
be paid, and to give all necessary directions for the purposes
aforesaid. The fact that the Court has no jurisdiction to try the suit

shall be no bar to the exercise of such powers.

(2) Where the Court directs that any costs shall not follow the event,

the Court shall state its reasons in writing.

(3) The Court may give interest on costs at any rate not exceeding

six per cent. per annum, and such interest shall be added to the
costs and shall be recoverable as such.

Compensatory 25[35A.(1) If in any suit or other proceeding, including an execution

costs in
respect of proceeding, not being an appeal, any party objects to the claim or
false or defence on the ground that the claim or defence, or any part of it, is
vexatious
false or vexatious, and if, thereafter, such claim or defence is
claims or
defences. disallowed, in whole or in part, the Court shall, after recording its

reasons for holding such claim or defence to be false or vexatious,

make an order for the payment to the objector, such cost by way of
compensation which may, without exceeding the limit of the Court's
pecuniary jurisdiction, extend upto twenty thousand taka.

(2) No person against whom an order has been made under this
section shall, by reason thereof, be exempted from any criminal
liability in respect of any claim or defence made by him.

(3) The amount of any cost awarded under this section in respect of
a false or vexatious claim or defence shall be taken into account in
 any subsequent suit for damages or compensation in respect of
such claim or defence.]

Cost for 26 [35B.(1) If at any stage of a suit or proceeding, an application or

delay in
making written objection is not filed within the time fixed by the Court, such
applications, application or written objection, as the case may be, shall not be
etc., in
admitted for hearing without payment by that party of such cost to
respect of
interlocutory the other party not exceeding two thousand taka.
matters.
(2) If after filing of written statement, any party to the suit makes an
application in respect of any matter which, in the opinion of the
Court, could and ought to have been made earlier, and is likely to
delay the main proceeding of the suit, the Court may admit, but shall

not hear and dispose of the application, without payment by that

party of such cost to the other party not exceeding three thousand
taka, as it shall determine and direct, and upon failure to pay the
cost, the application shall stand rejected.]

PART II
EXECUTION

General

Application 36. The provisions of this Code relating to the execution of decrees
to orders.
shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to the
execution of orders.

Definition 37. The expression "Court which passed a decree," or words to that
of Court
which effect, shall, in relation to the execution of decrees, unless there is
passed a anything repugnant in the subject or context, be deemed to include,-
decree.
(a) where the decree to be executed has been passed in the
exercise of appellate jurisdiction, the Court of first instance, and
 (b) where the Court of first instance has ceased to exist or to have
jurisdiction to execute it, the Court which, if the suit wherein the

decree was passed was instituted at the time of making the

application for the execution of the decree, would have jurisdiction
to try such suit.

Courts by which decrees may be executed

Court by 38. A decree may be executed either by the Court which passed it,
which
decree or by the Court to which it is sent for execution.
may be
executed.

Transfer of 39.(1) The Court which passed a decree may, on the application of
decree.
the decree-holder, send it for execution to another Court,-

(a) if the person against whom the decree is passed actually and
voluntarily resides or carries on business, or personally works for

gain, within the local limits of the jurisdiction of such other Court, or

(b) if such person has not property within the local limits of the

jurisdiction of the Court which passed the decree sufficient to satisfy

such decree and has property within the local limits of the
jurisdiction of such other Court, or

(c) if the decree directs the sale or delivery of immovable property

situate outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court which
passed it, or

(d) if the Court which passed the decree considers for any other
reason, which it shall record in writing, that the decree should be
executed by such other Court.

(2) The Court which passed a decree may of its own motion send it
for execution to any subordinate Court of competent jurisdiction.
[Omitted] 40. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

Result of 41. The Court to which a decree is sent for execution shall certify to
execution
proceedings the Court which passed it the fact of such execution, or where the
to be former Court fails to execute the same the circumstances attending
certified.
such failure.

Powers of 42.(1) The Court executing a decree sent to it shall have the same
Court in
executing powers in executing such decree as if it had been passed by itself.
transferred All persons disobeying or obstructing the execution of the decree
decree.
shall be punishable by such Court in the same manner as if it had
passed the decree. And its order in executing such decree shall be
subject to the same rules in respect of appeal as if the decree had

been passed by itself.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the

Court executing a decree sent to it shall have the following powers,

namely:-

(a) power under section 39 to transfer the decree to another Court, if

necessary;

(b) power under sub-section (1) of section 50 to permit execution to

proceed against the legal representatives of a deceased judgment-

debtor;

(c) power under section 152 to correct clerical or arithmetical errors;

(d) power under rule 16 of Order XXI to recognise the assignment of

a decree;

(e) power under sub-rule (2) of rule 50 of Order XXI to grant leave to
a decree-holder to proceed against a person not already recognised

as a partner in a firm in an execution proceeding against the firm;

 (f) power under clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 53 of Order XXI to
give notice of attachment of decree passed by another Court.

Execution 43. Any decree passed by a Civil Court established in any area in
of decrees
passed by Bangladesh to which the provisions relating to execution do not
British extend, 27[* * *] may, if it cannot be executed within the jurisdiction of
Courts in
the Court by which it was passed, be executed in manner herein
places to
which this provided within the jurisdiction of any Court in Bangladesh.
Part does
not extend
or in
foreign
territory.

[Omitted] 44. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

Execution 28 [44A.(1) Where a certified copy of a decree of any of the superior

of decrees
passed by Courts of 29
[* * *] any reciprocating territory has been filed in a
Courts in District Court, the decree may be executed in Bangladesh as if it
the United
had been passed by the District Court.
Kingdom
and other (2) Together with the certified copy of the decree shall be filed a
reciprocating
territory. certificate from such superior Court stating the extent, if any, to
which the decree has been satisfied or adjusted and such certificate
shall, for the purposes of proceedings under this section, be

conclusive proof of the extent of such satisfaction or adjustment.

(3) The provisions of section 47 shall as from the filing of the

certified copy of the decree apply to the proceedings of a District

Court executing a decree under this section, and the District Court
shall refuse execution of any such decree, if it is shown to the
satisfaction of the Court that the decree falls within any of the
exceptions specified in clauses (a) to (f) of section 13.]
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Explanation 2.- "Reciprocating territory" means 31 [any] country or

territory as the Government may, from time to time, by notification in
the official Gazette, declare to be reciprocating territory for the

purposes of this section; and "Superior Courts", with reference to

any such territory, means such Courts as may be specified in the
said notification.

Explanation 3.- "Decree", with reference to a superior Court, means

any decree or judgment of such Court under which a sum of money
is payable, not being a sum payable in respect of taxes or other
charges of a like nature or in respect of a fine or other penalty, and
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[* * *]

(b) in no case includes an arbitration award, even if such award is

enforceable as a decree or judgment.]

[Omitted] 45. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

Precepts 46.(1) Upon the application of the decree-holder the Court which
passed the decree may, whenever it thinks fit, issue a precept to any
other Court which would be competent to execute such decree to
attach any property belonging to the judgment-debtor and specified
in the precept.

(2) The Court to which a precept is sent shall proceed to attach the
property in the manner prescribed in regard to the attachment of
property in execution of a decree:

Provided that no attachment under a precept shall continue for more

than two months unless the period of attachment is extended by an
order of the Court which passed the decree or unless before the
 determination of such attachment the decree has been transferred
to the Court by which the attachment has been made and the
decree-holder has applied for an order for the sale of such property.

[Omitted] 47. [Omitted by section 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure

(Amendment) Ordinance, 1983 (Ordinance No. XLVIII of 1983).]

Limit of Time for Execution

Execution 48.(1) Where an application to execute a decree not being a decree

barred in
certain granting an injunction has been made, no order for the execution of
cases. the same decree shall be made upon any fresh application
presented after the expiration of twelve years from

(a) the date of the decree sought to be executed, or,

(b) where the decree or any subsequent order directs any payment
of money or the delivery of any property to be made at a certain
date or at recurring periods, the date of the default in making the
payment or delivery in respect of which the applicant seeks to

execute the decree.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed

(a) to preclude the Court from ordering the execution of a decree

upon an application presented after the expiration of the said term of
twelve years, where the judgment-debtor has, by fraud or force,

prevented the execution of the decree at some time within twelve

years immediately before the date of the application; or

(b) to limit or otherwise affect the operation of article 183 of the First
Schedule to the Limitation Act, 1908.

Transferees and Legal Representatives

Transferee 49. Every transferee of a decree shall hold the same subject to the
 equities (if any) which the judgment-debtor might have enforced
against the original decree-holder.

Legal 50.(1) Where a judgment-debtor dies before the decree has been
representative
fully satisfied, the holder of the decree may apply to the Court which
passed it to execute the same against the legal representative of the
deceased.

(2) Where the decree is executed against such legal representative,

he shall be liable only to the extent of the property of the deceased
which has come to his hands and has not been duly disposed of;
and, for the purpose of ascertaining such liability, the Court
executing the decree may, of its own motion or on the application of
the decree-holder, compel such legal representative to produce
such accounts as it thinks fit.

Procedure in Execution

Powers of 51. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed,

Court to
enforce the Court may, on the application of the decree-holder, order
execution. execution of the decree-

(a) by delivery of any property specifically decreed;

(b) by attachment and sale or by sale without attachment of any

property;

(c) by arrest and detention in prison;

(d) by appointing a receiver; or

(e) in such other manner as the nature of the relief granted may
require:

Provided that, where the decree is for the payment of money,

execution by detention in prison shall not be ordered unless, after
giving the judgment-debtor an opportunity of showing cause why he
 should not be committed to prison, the Court, for reasons recorded
in writing, is satisfied-

(a) that the judgment-debtor, with the object or effect of obstructing

or delaying the execution of the decree,-

(i) is likely to abscond or leave the local limits of the jurisdiction of

the Court, or

(ii) has, after the institution of the suit in which the decree was
passed, dishonestly transferred, concealed, or removed any part of
his property, or committed any other act of bad faith in relation to his
property; or

(b) that the judgment-debtor has, or has had since the date of the
decree, the means to pay the amount of the decree or some
substantial part thereof and refuses or neglects or has refused or
neglected to pay the same, or

(c) that the decree is for a sum for which the judgment-debtor was
bound in a fiduciary capacity to account.

Explanation.-In the calculation of the means of the judgment-debtor

for the purposes of clause (b), there shall be left out of account any
property which, by or under any law or custom having the force of

law for the time being in force, is exempt from attachment in

execution of the decree.

Enforcement 52.(1) Where a decree is passed against a party as the legal

of decree
against representative of a deceased person, and the decree is for the
legal payment of money out of the property of the deceased, it may be
representative.
executed by the attachment and sale of any such property.

(2) Where no such property remains in the possession of the

judgment-debtor and he fails to satisfy the Court that he has duly
applied such property of the deceased as is proved to have come
 into his possession, the decree may be executed against the
judgment-debtor to the extent of the property in respect of which he
has failed so to satisfy the Court in the same manner as if the
decree had been against him personally.

Liability of 53. For the purposes of section 50 and section 52, property in the
ancestral
property. hands of a son or other descendant which is liable under Hindu law
for the payment of the debt of a deceased ancestor, in respect of
which a decree has been passed, shall be deemed to be property of
the deceased which has come to the hands of the son or other
descendant as his legal representative.

Partition 54. Where the decree is for the partition of an undivided estate
of estate
or assessed to the payment of revenue to the Government, or for the
separation separate possession of a share of such an estate, the partition of
of share.
the estate or the separation of the share shall be made by the

Collector or any gazetted subordinate of the Collector deputed by

him in this behalf, in accordance with the law (if any) for the time
being in force relating to the partition, or the separate possession of
shares, of such estates.

Arrest and Detention

Arrest and 55.(1) A judgment-debtor may be arrested in execution of a decree

detention.
at any hour and on any day, and shall, as soon as practicable, be
brought before the Court, and his detention may be in the civil
prison of the district in which the Court ordering the detention is
situate, or, where such civil prison does not afford suitable
accommodation, in any other place which the Government may
appoint for the detention of persons ordered by the Courts of such
district to be detained:
Provided, firstly, that, for the purpose of making an arrest under this
section, no dwelling-house shall be entered after sunset and before
sunrise:

Provided, secondly, that no outer door of a dwelling-house shall be

broken open unless such dwelling-house is in the occupancy of the
judgment-debtor and he refuses or in any way prevents access
thereto, but when the officer authorised to make the arrest has duly
gained access to any dwelling-house, he may break open the door
of any room in which he has reason to believe the judgment-debtor
is to be found:

Provided, thirdly, that, if the room is in the actual occupancy of a

woman who is not the judgement-debtor and who according to the

customs of the country does not appear in public, the officer

authorised to make the arrest shall give notice to her that she is at
liberty to withdraw, and, after allowing a reasonable time for her to
withdraw and giving her reasonable facility for withdrawing, may
enter the room for the purpose of making the arrest:

Provided, fourthly, that, where the decree in execution of which a

judgment-debtor is arrested, is a decree for the payment of money
and the judgment-debtor pays the amount of the decree and the
costs of the arrest to the officer arresting him, such officer shall at
once release him.

(2) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,

declare that any person or class of persons whose arrest might be
attended with danger or inconvenience to the public shall not be
liable to arrest in execution of a decree otherwise than in
accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed by the

Government in this behalf.

(3) Where a judgment-debtor is arrested in execution of a decree for

 the payment of money and brought before the Court, the Court shall
inform him that he may apply to be declared an insolvent, and that
he may be discharged if he has not committed any act of bad faith
regarding the subject of the application and if he complies with the
provisions of the law of insolvency for the time being in force.

(4) Where a judgment-debtor expresses his intention to apply to be

declared an insolvent and furnishes security, to the satisfaction of
the Court, that he will within one month so apply, and that he will
appear, when called upon, in any proceeding upon the application or
upon the decree in execution of which he was arrested, the Court
may release him from arrest, and, if he fails so to apply and to
appear, the Court may either direct the security to be realized or

commit him to the civil prison in execution of the decree.

Prohibition 56. Notwithstanding anything in this Part, the Court shall not order
of arrest
or the arrest or detention in the civil prison of a woman in execution of
detention a decree for the payment of money.
of women
in
execution
of decree
for money.

Subsistence 57. The Government may fix scales, graduated according to rank,
allowance.
race and nationality, of monthly allowances payable for the
subsistence of judgment-debtors.

Detention 58.(1) Every person detained in the civil prison in execution of a

and
release. decree shall be so detained,-

(a) where the decree is for the payment of a sum of money

exceeding fifty Taka, for a period of six months, and,

(b) in any other case for a period of six weeks:

 Provided that he shall be released from such detention before the
expiration of the said period of six months or six weeks, as the case
may be,-

(i) on the amount mentioned in the warrant for his detention being
paid to the officer in charge of the civil prison, or

(ii) on the decree against him being otherwise fully satisfied, or

(iii) on the request of the person on whose application he has been

so detained, or

(iv) on the omission by the person, on whose application he has

been so detained, to pay subsistence allowance:

Provided, also, that he shall not be released from such detention

under clause (ii) or clause (iii), without the order of the Court.

(2) A judgment-debtor released from detention under this section

shall not merely by reason of his release be discharged from his
debt, but he shall not be liable to be re-arrested under the decree in
execution of which he was detained in the civil prison.

Release 59.(1) At any time after a warrant for the arrest of a judgment-debtor
on ground
of illness. has been issued the Court may cancel it on the ground of his
serious illness.

(2) Where a judgment-debtor has been arrested, the Court may

release him if, in its opinion, he is not in a fit state of health to be
detained in the civil prison.

(3) Where a judgment-debtor has been committed to the civil prison,

he may be released therefrom-

(a) by the Government, on the ground of the existence of any

infectious or contagious disease, or

(b) by the committing Court, or any Court to which that Court is

 subordinate, on the ground of his suffering from any serious illness.

(4) A judgment-debtor released under this section may be re-

arrested, but the period of his detention in the civil prison shall not in

the aggregate exceed that prescribed by section 58.

Attachment

Property 60.(1) The following property is liable to attachment and sale in

liable to
attachment execution of a decree, namely, lands, houses or other buildings,
and sale in goods, money, bank-notes, cheques, bills of exchange, hundis,
execution
promissory notes, Government securities, bonds or other securities
of decree.
for money, debts, shares in a corporation and, save as hereinafter
mentioned, all other saleable property, moveable or immovable,
belonging to the judgment-debtor, or over which, or the profits of
which, he has a disposing power which he may exercise for his own
benefit, whether the same be held in the name of the judgment-
debtor or by another person in trust for him or on his behalf:
Provided that the following particulars shall not be liable to such

attachment or sale, namely:-

(a) the necessary wearing-apparel, cooking vessels, beds and

bedding of the judgment-debtor, his wife and children, and such

personal ornaments as, in accordance with religious usage, cannot

be parted with by any woman;

(b) tools of artisans, and, where the judgment-debtor is an

agriculturist, his implements of husbandry and such cattle and seed-
grain as may, in the opinion of the Court, be necessary to enable
him to earn his livelihood as such, and such portion of agricultural
produce or of any class of agricultural produce as may have been
declared to be free from liability under the provisions of the next
following section;
(c) houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites
thereof and the land immediately appurtenant thereto and
necessary for their enjoyment) belonging to an agriculturist and
occupied by him;

(d) books of account;

(e) a mere right to sue for damages;

(f) any right of personal service;

(g) stipends and gratuities allowed to pensioners of the

Government, or payable out of any service family pension fund
notified in the official Gazette by the Government or the Government
in this behalf, and political pensions;

(h) the wages of labourers and domestic servants, whether payable

in money or in kind;

(i) salary to the extent of the first hundred Taka and one-half the
remainder:

Provided that where such salary is the salary of a Servant of the

33
[Republic] or a servant of 34
[the Railway] or local authority, and the
whole or any part of the portion of such salary liable to attachment
has been under attachment, whether continuously or intermittently
for a total period of twenty-four months, such portion shall be
exempt from attachment until the expiry of a further period of twelve
months and, where such attachment has been made in execution of
one and the same decree, shall be finally exempt from attachment
in execution of that decree;

(j) the pay and allowances of persons to whom the 35 [Army Act,
1952, Navy Ordinance, 1961, or the Air Force Act, 1953,] applies;

(k) all compulsory deposits and other sums in or derived from any
fund to which the Provident Funds Act, 1925, for the time being
applies in so far as they are declared by the said Act not to be liable
to attachment;

(l) any allowance forming part of the emoluments of any servant of

the 36
[Republic] or of any servant of 37
[the Railway] or local authority
which the Government may by notification in the official Gazette
declare to be exempt from attachment, and any subsistence grant or
allowance made to any such servant while under suspension;

(m) an expectancy of succession by survivorship or other merely

contingent or possible right or interest;

(n) a right to future maintenance;

(o) any allowance declared by any Bangladesh law to be exempt

from liability to attachment or sale in execution of a decree; and,

(p) where the judgment-debtor is a person liable for the payment of

land-revenue, any movable property which, under any law for the
time being applicable to him, is exempt from sale for the recovery of
an arrear of such revenue.

Explanation 1.-The particulars mentioned in clauses (g), (h), (i), (j),

(l) and (o) are exempt from attachment or sale whether before or
after they are actually payable, and in the case of salary other than
salary of a servant of the 38
[Republic] or a servant of 39
[the Railway]
or local authority the attachable portion thereof is exempt from
attachment until it is actually payable.

Explanation 2.-In clauses (h) and (i), "salary" means the total
monthly emoluments, excluding any allowance declared exempt
from attachment under the provisions of clause (l), derived by a
person from his employment whether on duty or on leave.
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(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt houses and

 other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the
lands immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their
enjoyment) from attachment or sale in execution of decrees for rent
of any such house, building, site or land.

Partial 61. The Government may, by general or special order published in

exemption
of the official Gazette, declare that such portion of agricultural produce,
agricultural or of any class of agricultural produce, as may appear to the
produce.
Government to be necessary for the purpose of providing until the
next harvest for the due cultivation of the land and for the support of
the judgment-debtor and his family, shall, in the case of all
agriculturists or of any class of agriculturists, be exempted from
liability to attachment or sale in execution of a decree.

Seizure of 62.(1) No person executing any process under this Code directing
property
in or authorising seizure of movable property shall enter any dwelling-
dwelling- house after sunset and before sunrise.
house.
(2) No outer door of a dwelling-house shall be broken open unless
such dwelling-house is in the occupancy of the judgment-debtor and
he refuses or in any way prevents access thereto, but when the
person executing any such process has duly gained access to any
dwelling-house, he may break open the door of any room in which
he has reason to believe any such property to be.

(3) Where a room in a dwelling-house is in the actual occupancy of

a woman who, according to the customs of the country, does not
appear in public, the person executing the process shall give notice

to such woman that she is at liberty to withdraw; and, after allowing

reasonable time for her to withdraw and giving her reasonable
facility for withdrawing, he may enter such room for the purpose of
seizing the property, using at the same time every precaution,
 consistent with these provisions, to prevent its clandestine removal.

Property 63.(1) Where property not in the custody of any Court is under
attached
in attachment in execution of decrees of more Courts than one, the
execution Court which shall receive or realize such property and shall
of decrees
determine any claim thereto and any objection to the attachment
of several
Courts. thereof shall be the Court of highest grade, or, where there is no
difference in grade between such Courts, the Court under whose
decree the property was first attached.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to invalidate any

proceeding taken by a Court executing one of such decrees.

Private 64. Where an attachment has been made, any private transfer or
alienation
of delivery of the property attached or of any interest therein and any
property payment to the judgment-debtor of any debt, dividend or other
after
monies contrary to such attachment, shall be void as against all
attachment
to be void. claims enforceable under the attachment.

Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, claims enforceable

under an attachment include claims for the rateable distribution of
assets.

Sale

Purchaser's 65. Where immovable property is sold in execution of a decree and

title
such sale has become absolute, the property shall be deemed to
have vested in the purchaser from the time when the property is
sold and not from the time when the sale becomes absolute.

Suit 66.(1) No suit shall be maintained against any person claiming title
against
purchaser under a purchase certified by the Court in such manner as may be
not prescribed on the ground that the purchase was made on behalf of
maintainable the plaintiff or on behalf of some one through whom the plaintiff
on ground
of claims.
purchase (2) Nothing in this section shall bar a suit to obtain a declaration that
being on
behalf of the name of any purchaser certified as aforesaid was inserted in the
plaintiff. certificate fraudulently or without the consent of the real purchaser,
or interfere with the right of a third person to proceed against that
property, though ostensibly sold to the certified purchaser, on the
ground that it is liable to satisfy a claim of such third person against

the real owner.

Power for 67.(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,
Government
to make make rules for any local area imposing conditions in respect of the
rules as to sale of any class of interests in land in execution of decrees for the
sales of
payment of money, where such interests are so uncertain or
land in
execution undermined as, in the opinion of the Government, to make it
of decrees
impossible to fix their value.
for
payment (2) When on the date on which this Code came into operation in any
of money.
local area, any special rules as to sale of land in execution of
decrees were in force therein, the Government may, by notification
in the official Gazette, declare such rules to be in force, or may, by a
like notification, modify the same.

Every notification issued in the exercise of the powers conferred by

this sub-section shall set out the rules so continued or modified.

Delegation to Collector of Power to Execute Decrees against Immovable Property

Power to 68. The Government may, declare, by notification in the official

prescribe
rules for Gazette, that in any local area the execution of decrees in cases in
transferring which a Court has ordered any immovable property to be sold, or
to
the execution of any particular kind of such decrees, or the
Collector
execution execution of decrees ordering the sale of any particular kind of, or
of certain
decrees. interest in, immovable property, shall be transferred to the Collector.

Provisions 69. The provisions set forth in the Third Schedule shall apply to all
of Third
Schedule cases in which the execution of a decree has been transferred
to apply. under the last preceding section.

Rules of 70.(1) The Government may make rules consistent with the
procedure.
aforesaid provisions-

(a) for the transmission of the decree from the Court to the Collector,

and for regulating the procedure of the Collector and his

subordinates in executing the same, and for retransmitting the
decree from the Collector to the Court;

(b) conferring upon the Collector or any gazetted subordinate of the

Collector all or any of the powers which the Court might exercise in
the execution of the decree if the execution thereof had not been
transferred to the Collector;

(c) providing for orders made by the Collector or any gazetted

subordinate of the Collector, or orders made on appeal with respect
to such orders, being subject to appeal to, and revision by, superior
revenue-authorities as nearly as may be as the orders made by the
Court, or orders made on appeal with respect to such orders, would
be subject to appeal to, and revision by, appellate or revisional
Courts under this Code or other law for the time being in force if the
decree had not been transferred to the Collector.

(2) A power conferred by rules made under sub-section (1) upon the

collector or any gazetted subordinate of the Collector, or upon any

appellate or revisional authority, shall not be exercisable by the
Court or by any Court in exercise of any appellate or revisional
 jurisdiction which it has with respect to decrees or orders of the
Court.

Collector 71. In executing a decree transferred to the Collector under section

deemed to
be acting 68 the Collector and his subordinates shall be deemed to be acting
judicially. judicially.

Where 72.(1) Where in any local area in which no declaration under section
Court may
authorise 68 is in force the property attached consists of land or of a share in
Collector land, and the Collector represents to the Court that the public sale of
to stay
the land or share is objectionable and that satisfaction of the decree
public sale
of land. may be made within a reasonable period by a temporary alienation
of the land or share, the Court may authorise the Collector to
provide for such satisfaction in the manner recommended by him
instead of proceeding to a sale of the land or share.

(2) In every such case the provisions of sections 69 to 71 and of any

rules made in pursuance thereof shall apply so far as they are
applicable.

Distribution of Assets

Proceeds 73.(1) Where assets are held by a Court and more persons than
of
execution- one have, before the receipt of such assets, made application to the
sale to be Court for the execution of decrees for the payment of money passed
rateably
against the same judgment-debtor and have not obtained
distributed
among satisfaction thereof, the assets, after deducting the costs of
decree-
realization, shall be rateably distributed among all such persons:
holders.
Provided as follows:-

(a) where any property is sold subject to a mortgage or charge, the

mortgagee or incumbrancer shall not be entitled to share in any
 surplus arising from such sale;

(b) where any property liable to be sold in execution of a decree is

subject to a mortgage or charge, the Court may, with the consent of

the mortgagee or incumbrancer, order that the property be sold free

from the mortgage or charge, giving to the mortgagee or
incumbrancer the same interest in the proceeds of the sale as he
had in the property sold;

(c) where any immovable property is sold in execution of a decree

ordering its sale for the discharge of an incumbrance thereon, the
proceeds of sale shall be applied-

firstly, in defraying the expenses of the sale;

secondly, in discharging the amount due under the decree;

thirdly, in discharging the interest and principal monies due on

subsequent incumbrances (if any); and

fourthly, rateably among the holders of decrees for the payment of

money against the judgment-debtor, who have, prior to the sale of

the property, applied to the Court which passed the decree ordering
such sale for execution of such decrees, and have not obtained
satisfaction thereof.

(2) Where all or any of the assets liable to be rateably distributed

under this section are paid to a person not entitled to receive the
same, any person so entitled may sue such person to compel him to
refund the assets.

(3) Nothing in this section affects any right of the Government.

Resistance to Execution

Resistance 74. Where the Court is satisfied that the holder of a decree for the
to
execution. possession of immovable property or that the purchaser of
 immovable property sold in execution of a decree has been resisted
or obstructed in obtaining possession of the property by the
judgment-debtor or some person on his behalf and that such
resistance or obstruction was without any just cause, the Court may,
at the instance of the decree-holder or purchaser, order the
judgment-debtor or such other person to be detained in the civil

prison for a term which may extend to thirty days and may further
direct that the decree-holder or purchaser be put into possession of
the property.

PART III
INCIDENTAL PROCEEDINGS

Commissions

Power of 75. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed,

Court to
issue the Court may issue a commission-
commissions. (a) to examine any person;

(b) to make a local investigation;

(c) to examine or adjust accounts; or

(d) to make a partition.

[Omitted] 76. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

Letter of 77. In lieu of issuing a commission the Court may issue a letter of
request.
request to examine a witness residing at any place not within

Bangladesh.

Commissions 78. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed,

issued by
foreign the provisions as to the execution and return of commissions for the
Courts. examination of witnesses shall apply to commissions issued by or at
 the instance of-

(a) Courts situate beyond the limits of Bangladesh and established

or continued by the authority of Government, or
41 [* * *]

(c) Courts of any State or country outside Bangladesh.

PART IV
SUITS IN PARTICULAR CASES

Suits by or against the Government or Public Officers in their official capacity

Suits by or 79. In a suit by or against the Government the authority to 79. In a

against
the suit by or against the Government the authority to be named as
Government. plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, 42[shall be Bangladesh]-

43 [* * *]

Notice 80.(1) A suit may be instituted against the Government or against a

public officer, in respect of any act purporting to be done by such
public officer in his official capacity, after the expiration of two

months next after notice in writing has been delivered to or left at

the office of,-
44
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(b)(i) in the case of a suit against the Government other than a suit
relating to the affairs of 45 [the Railway], a Secretary to 46 [the

Government] or the Collector of the District; and

(ii) in the case of a suit against the Government relating to the affairs

of 47[the Railway], the General Manager of the Railway 48[* * *],

and in the case of a public officer, delivered to him or left at his office

stating the cause of action, the name, description of place of

residence of the plaintiff and the relief which he claims; and the
 plaint shall contain a statement that such notice has been so
delivered or left.

(2) Where any such suit is instituted without delivering or leaving

such notice as aforesaid or before the expiration of the said period
of two months or where the plaint does not contain a statement that
such notice has been so delivered or left, the plaintiff shall not be
entitled to any costs if settlement as regards the subject-matter of
the suit is reached or the Government or the public officer concedes

the plaintiff's claim, within the period of two months from the date of
the institution of the suit:

Provided that in a suit instituted without such notice, the Court shall

allow not less than three months to the Government to submit its
written statement.

Exemption 81. In a suit instituted against a public officer in respect of any act
from
arrest and purporting to be done by him in his official capacity-
personal (a) the defendant shall not be liable to arrest nor his property to
appearance.
attachment otherwise than in execution of a decree, and,

(b) where the Court is satisfied that the defendant cannot absent
himself from his duty without detriment to the public service, it shall
exempt him from appearing in person.

Execution 82.(1) Where the decree is against the Government or against a

of decree.
public officer in respect of any such act as aforesaid, a time shall be
specified in the decree within which it shall be satisfied; and, if the
decree is not satisfied within the time so specified, the Court shall
report the case for the orders of the Government.

(2) Execution shall not be issued on any such decree unless it

remains unsatisfied for the period of three months computed from
 the date of such report.

Suits by Aliens and by or against foreign Rulers, Ambassadors and Envoys

When 83.(1) Alien enemies residing in Bangladesh with the permission of

aliens may
sue. the Government, and alien friends, may sue in the Courts in
49 [Bangladesh], as if they were citizens of 50[Bangladesh].

(2) No alien enemy residing in Bangladesh without such permission,

or residing in a foreign country, shall sue in any of such Courts.

Explanation.-Every person residing in a foreign country the

Government of which is at war with, or engaged in military
operations against, Bangladesh, and carrying on business in that

country without a license in that behalf under the hand of a

Secretary to the Government shall, for the purpose of sub-section
(2), be deemed to be an alien enemy residing in a foreign country.

When 84.(1) A foreign State may sue in any Court in 51[Bangladesh]:

foreign
States Provided that such State has been recognized by the Government:
may sue.
Provided, also, that the object of the suit is to enforce a private right

vested in the head of such State or in any officer of such State in his
public capacity.

(2) Every Court shall take judicial notice of the fact that a foreign

State has or has not been recognized by the Government.

Persons 85.(1) Persons specially appointed by order of the Government at

specially
appointed the request of the Ruler of any foreign State, or at the request of any
by person competent, in the opinion of the Government, to act on
Government
behalf of such Ruler, to prosecute or defend any suit on his behalf,
to
prosecute shall be deemed to be the recognized agents by whom
or defend
appearances, acts and applications under this Code may be made
for Rules
of foreign or done on behalf of such Ruler.
States.
(2) An appointment under this section may be made for the purpose
of a specified suit or of several specified suits, or for the purpose of
all such suits as it may from time to time be necessary to prosecute
or defend on behalf of the Ruler.

(3) A person appointed under this section may authorise or appoint

persons to make appearances and applications and do acts in any
such suit or suits as if he were himself a party thereto.

Suits 52
[86.(1) Any Ruler of foreign State may, with the consent of the
against
Rulers. Government, certified by the signature of a Secretary to that
Government but not without such consent, be sued in any
competent Court.

(2) Such consent may be given with respect to a specified suit or to

several specified suits or with respect to all suits of any specified
class or classes, and may specify, in the case of any suit or class of
suits, the Court in which the Ruler may be sued; but it shall not be
given unless it appears to the consenting authority that the Ruler

(a) has instituted a suit in the Court against the person desiring to
sue him, or

(b) by himself or another trades within the local limits of the

jurisdiction of the Court, or

(c) is in possession of immovable property situated within those

limits and is to be sued with reference to such property or for money
charged thereon.

(3) No such Ruler shall be arrested under this Code, and, except
with the consent of the Government certified as aforesaid, on
decree shall be executed against the property of any such Ruler.

(4) [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws

 (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

(5) A person may, as a tenant of immovable property, sue, without

such consent as is mentioned in this section, a Ruler from whom he
holds or claims to hold the property.

Suits 86A.(1) No proceeding in any Court shall lie against a diplomatic

against
diplomatic agent except in a case relating to-
agents. (a) any private immovable property situated in Bangladesh held by
him in his private capacity and not on behalf of the sending State for
the purpose of the mission;

(b) a succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as

executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not
on behalf of the sending State;

(c) any professional or commercial activity exercised by the

diplomatic agent in Bangladesh outside his official functions.

(2) No measures of execution shall be taken in respect of a

diplomatic agent except in cases which come under clauses (a), (b)
and (c) of sub-section (1) and in which such measures can be taken
without infringing the inviolability of his person or of his residence.

(3) The initiation of any proceedings in a Court by a diplomatic agent

shall preclude him from invoking immunity from jurisdiction under
this section in respect of any counter-claim directly connected with
the principal claim.

(4) The immunity of a diplomatic agent under sub- (4) The immunity
of a diplomatic agent under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may
be waived by the sending State; and any such waiver shall be

express.

(5) Waiver of immunity in respect of any proceedings shall not be

held to imply waiver of immunity in respect of any measure of

 execution for which a separate waiver shall be necessary.

(6) In this section, 'diplomatic agent' in relation to a State means the

head of the mission in Bangladesh of that State and includes a
member of the staff of that mission having diplomatic rank.]

Style of 87. The Ruler of a foreign State may sue, and shall be sued, in the
Rulers as
parties to name of his State:
suits. Provided that in giving the consent referred to in the foregoing
section the Government, or the Government, as the case may be,
may direct that any such Ruler shall be sued in the name of an
agent or in any other name.

[Suits Against Rulers of Acceding and Merged States

[Omitted] 87A. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]]

Interpleader

Where 88. Where two or more persons claim adversely to one another the
interpleader
suit may same debt, sum of money or other property, movable or immovable,
be from another person, who claims no interest therein other than for
instituted.
charges or costs and who is ready to pay or deliver it to the rightful
claimant, such other person may institute a suit of interpleader
against all the claimants for the purpose of obtaining a decision as
to the person to whom the payment or delivery shall be made and of
obtaining indemnity for himself:

Provided that where any suit is pending in which the rights of all
parties can properly be decided, no such suit of interpleader shall be
instituted.

PART V
 SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

[ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION]

[Omitted] 89. [Omitted by section 49 and Third Schedule of the Arbitration Act,
1940 (Act No. X of 1940).]

Arbitration 89B.(1) If the parties to a suit, at any stage of the proceeding, apply
to the Court for withdrawal of the suit on ground that they will refer
the dispute or disputes in the suit to arbitration for settlement, the
Court shall allow the application and permit the suit to be withdrawn;
and the dispute or disputes, thereafter, shall be settled in
accordance with Salish Ain, 2001 (Act No. 1 of 2001) so far as may
be applicable:

Provided that, if, for any reason, the arbitration proceeding referred
to above does not take place or an arbitral award is not given, the
parties shall be entitled to re-institute the suit permitted to be
withdrawn under this sub-section.

(2) An application under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be an

arbitration agreement under section 9 of the Salish Ain, 2001 (Act
No. 1 of 2001).]

Mediation 53
[89A.(1) Except in a suit under the 54
[Artha Rin Adalat Ain, 2003
(Act No. 8 of 2003)], after filing of written statement, if all the
contesting parties are in attendance in the Court in person or by
their respective pleaders, 55 [the Court shall], by adjourning the
hearing, mediate in order to settle the dispute or disputes in the suit,
or refer the dispute or disputes in the suit 56 [to the concerned Legal
Aid Officer appointed under the Legal Aid Act, 2000 (Act No. 6 of
2000), or] to the engaged pleaders of the parties, or to the party or
parties, where no pleader or pleaders have been engaged, or to a
mediator from the panel as may be prepared by the District Judge
under sub-section (10), for undertaking efforts for settlement through
mediation. 57[***}

(2) When the reference under sub-section (1) is made through the
pleaders, the pleaders shall, by their mutual agreement in
consultation with their respective clients, appoint another pleader,
not engaged by the parties in the suit, or a retired judge, or a
mediator from the panel as may be prepared by the District Judge
under sub-section (10), or any other person whom they may seem
to be suitable, to act as a mediator for settlement: Provided that,
nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to prohibit appointment
of more than one person to act as mediator:

Provided further that, a person holding an office of profit in the

service of the Republic shall not be eligible for appointment as
mediator.
58 [(3) While referring a dispute or disputes in the suit for mediation
under sub-section (1), it shall be for the pleaders, their respective
clients and the mediator to mutually agree on and determine the
fees and the procedure to be followed for the purpose of settlement

through mediation; and when the Court 59

[ or Legal Aid Officer] shall
mediate, it shall determine the procedure to be followed, and shall
not charge any fee for mediation:

Provided that if the pleaders, their respective clients and the

mediator fail to determine the fees, the Court shall fix the fees and
the fees so fixed shall be binding upon the parties.]
60
[(4) Within ten days from the date of reference under sub-section
(1), the parties shall inform the Court in writing whom they have
appointed as mediator, and if the parties fail to appoint the mediator
during this time, the Court shall, within seven days, appoint a
mediator from the panel as mentioned in sub-section (10) and the
mediation under this section shall be concluded within 60 (sixty)
days from the day on which the Court is so informed, 61
[or the
dispute or disputes are referred to Legal Aid Officer, or a mediator is
appointed by the Court], as the case may be, unless the Court of its
own motion or upon a joint prayer of the parties, extends the time for
a further period of not exceeding 30 (thirty) days.]
62 [(5) The 63 [ Legal Aid Officer or mediator, as the case may be,]
shall, without violating the confidentiality of the parties to the
mediation proceedings, submit to the court a report of result of the
mediation proceedings; and if the result is of compromise of the
dispute or disputes in the suit, the terms of such compromise shall
be reduced into writing in the form of an agreement, bearing
signatures or left thumb impressions of the parties as executants,
and signatures of the pleaders, if any, and the 64[ Legal Aid Officer or
mediator, as the case may be,] as witnesses; and the Court shall,
within seven days from receiving the said report, pass an order or a
decree in accordance with relevant provisions of Order XXIII of the
Code.]

(6) When the Court itself mediates, it shall 65 [prepare a report and
pass an order in the manner] to that as stated in sub-section (5).

(7) When the mediation fails to produce any compromise, the Court
shall, subject to the provision of sub-section (9), proceed with
hearing of the suit from the stage at which the suit stood before the

decision to mediate or reference for mediation under sub-section

(1), and in accordance with provisions of the Code in a manner as if
there had been no decision to mediate or reference for mediation as
aforesaid.

(8) The proceedings of mediation under this section shall be

confidential and any communication made, evidence adduced,
admission, statement or comment made and conversation held

between the parties, their pleaders, representatives 66

[, Legal Aid
Officer] and the mediator, shall be deemed privileged and shall not
be referred to and admissible in evidence in any subsequent
hearing of the same suit or any other proceeding.

(9) When a mediation initiative led by the Court itself fails to resolve
the dispute or disputes in the suit, the same court shall not hear the
suit, if the Court continues to be presided by the same judge who
led the mediation initiative; and in that instance, the suit shall be
heard by another court of competent jurisdiction.

(10) For the purposes of this section, the District Judge shall, in
consultation with the President of the District Bar Association,
prepare a panel of mediators (to be updated from time to time)
consisting of pleaders, retired judges, persons known to be trained
in the art of dispute resolution, and such other person or persons,
except persons holding office of profit in the service of the Republic,
as may be deemed appropriate for the purpose, and shall inform all
the Civil Courts under his administrative jurisdiction about the panel:

Provided that, a mediator under this sub-section, shall not act as a

mediator between the parties, if he had ever been engaged by
either of the parties as a pleader in any suit in any Court.

(11) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Court-fees Act, 1870

(Act No. VII of 1870), where a dispute or disputes in a suit are
settled on compromise under this section, the Court shall issue a
certificate directing refund of the court fees paid by the parties in
respect of the plaint or written statement; and the parties shall be
entitled to such refund within 60 (sixty) days of the issuance of the
certificate.
 (12) No appeal or revision shall lie against any order or decree
passed by the Court in pursuance of settlement between the parties
under this section.

(13) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to otherwise limit the

option of the parties regarding withdrawal, adjustment and
compromise of the suit under Order XXIII of the Code.

Explanation-(1) "Mediation" under this section shall mean flexible,

informal, non-binding, confidential, non-adversarial and consensual
dispute resolution process in which the mediator shall facilitate
compromise of disputes in the suit between the parties without
directing or dictating the terms of such compromise.

(2) "Compromise" under this section shall include also compromise

in part of the disputes in the suit.

Mediation 67
[89C.(1) An Appellate Court 68
[shall] mediate in an appeal or refer
in Appeal.
the appeal for mediation in order to settle the dispute or disputes in
that appeal, if the appeal is an appeal from original decree under
Order XLI, and is between the same parties who contested in the
original suit or the parties who have been substituted for the original
contesting parties.
69 [(2) In mediation under sub-section (1), the provisions of section
89A shall be followed with necessary changes (mutatis mutandis) as
may be expedient.]]

Special 70 [89D. The Contesting parties to a suit or of an appeal, pending in

provisions
for any Court before the commencement of the Code of Civil Procedure
mediation (Amendment) Act, 2012, may by filing an application stating their
willingness to settle the dispute through mediation, such suit or
appeal shall be disposed of in accordance with the provision of
 section 89A or 89C.

Application 89E. (1) The provision of section 89A or 89C shall be, applied to
and
commencementsuch area, and commenced on such date, as the government may,
of the by notification in the official Gazette, fix.
provisions
of (2) Where any mediation process for settlement of dispute in respect
sections of any suit or appeal is pending under section 89A or 89C before the
89A and
89C commencement of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act,
2012, such mediation shall continue as if the provision of section
89A or 89C were not amended by the Code of Civil Procedure
(Amendment) Act, 2012.]

Special Case

Power to 90. Where any persons agree in writing to state a case for the
state case
for opinion of the Court, then the Court shall try and determine the
opinion of same in the manner prescribed.
Court.

Suits relating to Public Matters

Public 91.(1) In the case of a public nuisance the 71 [Attorney General], or

nuisances
two or more persons having obtained the consent in writing of the
72 [Attorney General], may institute a suit, though no special damage
has been caused, for a declaration and injunction or for such other
relief as may be appropriate to the circumstances of the case.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit or otherwise

affect any right of suit which may exist independently of its
provisions.

Public 92.(1) In the case of any alleged breach of any express or

charities
constructive trust created for public purposes of a charitable or
 religious nature, or where the direction of the Court is deemed
necessary for the administration of any such trust, the 73
[Attorney
General], or two or more persons having an interest in the trust and
having obtained the consent in writing of the 74
[Attorney General],
may institute a suit, whether contentious or not, in the principal Civil
Court of original jurisdiction or in any other Court empowered in that
behalf by the Government within the local limits of whose jurisdiction
the whole or any part of the subject-matter of the trust is situate, to
obtain a decree-

(a) removing any trustee;

(b) appointing a new trustee;

(c) vesting any property in a trustee;

(d) directing accounts and inquiries;

(e) declaring what proportion of the trust-property or of the interest

therein shall be allocated to any particular object of the trust;

(f) authorising the whole or any part of the trust- property to be let,
sold, mortgaged or exchanged;

(g) setting a scheme; or

(h) granting such further or other relief as the nature of the case
may require.

(2) Save as provided by the Religious Endowments Act, 1863 (XX of

1863), no suit claiming any of the reliefs specified in sub-section (1)
shall be instituted in respect of any such trust as is therein referred
to except in conformity with the provisions of that sub-section.

Exercise 93. The powers conferred by sections 91 and 92 on the Attorney

of powers
of General may, be, with the previous sanction of the Government,
Attorney exercised also by the Collector or by such officer as the Government
General.
may appoint in this behalf.
 PART VI
SUPPLEMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

Supplemental 94. In order to prevent the ends of justice from being defeated the
proceedings
Court may, if it is so prescribed,-

(a) issue a warrant to arrest the defendant and bring him before the
Court to show cause why he should not give security for his
appearance, and if he fails to comply with any order for security

commit him to the civil prison;

(b) direct the defendant to furnish security to produce any property

belonging to him and to place the same at the disposal of the Court
or order the attachment of any property;

(c) grant a temporary injunction and in case of disobedience commit

the person guilty thereof to the civil prison and order that his
property be attached and sold;

(d) appoint a receiver of any property and enforce the performance

of his duties by attaching and selling his property;

(e) make such other interlocutory orders as may appear to the Court
to be just and convenient.

Compensation 95.(1) Where, in any suit in which an arrest or attachment has been
for
obtaining effected or a temporary injunction granted under the last proceeding
arrest, section,-
attachment
or (a) it appears to the Court that such arrest, attachment or injunction
injunction was applied for on insufficient grounds, or
on
insufficient (b) the suit of the plaintiff fails and it appears to the Court that there
grounds. was no reasonable or probable ground for instituting the same,

the defendant may apply to the Court, and the Court may, upon
 such application, award against the plaintiff by its order such
amount, not exceeding 75 [ten thousand] Taka, as it deems a
reasonable compensation to the defendant for the expense or injury
caused to him:

Provided that a Court shall not award, under this section, an amount
exceeding the limits of its pecuniary jurisdiction.

(2) An order determining any such application shall bar any suit for
compensation in respect of such arrest, attachment or injunction.

PART VII
APPEALS

Appeals From Original Decrees

Appeal 96.(1) Save where otherwise expressly provided in the body of

from
original this Code or by any other law for the time being in force, an
decree. appeal shall lie from every decree passed by any Court exercising

original jurisdiction to the Court authorised to hear appeals from the

decisions of such Court.

(2) An appeal may lie from an original decree passed ex parte.

(3) No appeal shall lie from a decree passed by the Court with the
consent of parties.

Appeal 97. Where any party aggrieved by a preliminary decree passed after
from final
decree the commencement of this Code does not appeal from such decree,
where no he shall be precluded from disputing its correctness in any appeal
appeal
which may be preferred from the final decree.
from
preliminary
decree.

Decision 98.(1) Where an appeal is heard by a Bench of two or more Judges,

where
appeal the appeal shall be decided in accordance with the opinion of such
heard by Judges or of the majority (if any) of such Judges.
two or
more (2) Where there is no such majority which concurs in a judgment
Judges. varying or reversing the decree appealed from, such decree shall be
confirmed:

Provided that where the Bench hearing the appeal is composed of

two Judges belonging to a Court consisting of more than two
Judges, and the Judges composing the Bench differ in opinion on a
point of law, they may state the point of law upon which they differ
and the appeal shall then be heard upon that point only by one or
more of the other Judges, and such point shall be decided
according to the opinion of the majority (if any) of the Judges who
have heard the appeal, including those who first heard it.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to alter or otherwise

affect any provision of the letters patent of High Court Division.

No decree 99. No decree shall be reserved or substantially varied, nor shall

to be
reversed any case be remanded, in appeal on account of any misjoinder of
or parties or causes of action or any error, defect or irregularity in any
modified
proceedings in the suit, not affecting the merits of the case or the
for error
or jurisdiction of the Court.
irregularity
not
affecting
merits or
jurisdiction.

Appeals from Appellate Decrees

[Omitted] 100-103. [Omitted by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms

Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978).]

Appeals from Orders

Orders 104.(1) An appeal shall lie from the following orders, and save as
from
which otherwise expressly provided in the body of this Code or by any law
appeal for the time being in force, from no other orders:
lies.
76
[* * *]
77
[(ff) an order under section 35A;]

(g) an order under section 95;

(h) an order under any of the provisions of this Code imposing a fine

or directing the arrest or detention in the civil prison of any person

except where such arrest or detention is in execution of a decree;

(i) any order made under rules from which an appeal is expressly
allowed by rules:

Provided that no appeal shall lie against any order specified in

clause (ff) save on the ground that no order, or an order for the
payment of a less amount, ought to have been made.

(2) No appeal shall lie from any order passed in appeal under this
section.

Other 105.(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided, no appeal shall lie

orders
from any order made by a Court in the exercise of its original or
appellate jurisdiction; but, where a decree is appealed from, any
error, defect or irregularity in any order, affecting the decision of the
case, may be set forth as a ground of objection in the memorandum
of appeal.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where

any party aggrieved by an order of remand made after the
commencement of this Code from which an appeal lies does not
appeal therefrom, he shall thereafter be precluded from disputing its
correctness.
What 106. Where an appeal from any order is allowed it shall lie to the
Courts to
hear Court to which an appeal would lie from the decree in the suit in
appeals. which such order was made, or where such order is made by a

Court not being the High Court Division in the exercise of appellate
jurisdiction, then to the High Court Division.

General Provisions relating to Appeals

Powers of 107. (1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be

Appellate
Court. prescribed, an Appellate Court shall have power-

(a) to determine a case finally;

(b) to remand a case;

(c) to frame issues and refer them for trial;

(d) to take additional evidence or to require such evidence to be

taken.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, the appellate Court shall have the same
powers and shall perform as nearly as may be the same duties as

are conferred and imposed by this Code on Courts of original

jurisdiction in respect of suits instituted therein.

Procedure 108. The provisions of this Part relating to appeals from original
in appeals
from decrees shall, so far as may be, apply to appeals-
appellate (a) from appellate decrees, and
decrees
and (b) from orders made under this Code or under any special 78 [* * *]
orders.
law in which a different procedure is not provided.

[Appeals to the Appellate Division]

When 109. Subject to such rules as may, from time to time, be made by
appeals lie
to the the Supreme Court regarding appeals from the Courts of
Supreme Bangladesh, and to the provisions hereinafter contained, an appeal
Court.
shall lie to the 79[Appellate Division]

(a) from any Judgment, decree or final order passed on appeal by

the High Court Division or by any other Court of final appellate

jurisdiction;

(b) from any Judgment, decree or final order passed by the High
Court Division in the exercise of original civil jurisdiction; and

(c) from any Judgment, decree or final order, when the case, as

hereinafter provided, is certified to be a fit one for appeal to the

80
[Appellate Division].

Value of 110. In each of the cases mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) of section
subject-
matter. 109, the amount or value of the subject-matter of the suit in the

Court of first instance must be twenty thousand Taka or upwards,

and the amount or value of the subject-matter of the suit in the Court
of first instance must be twenty thousand Taka or upwards, and the

amount or value of the subject-matter in dispute on appeal to the

81
[Appellate Division] must be the same sum or upwards,

or the Judgment, decree or final order must involve, directly or

indirectly, some claim or question to or respecting property of like

amount or value,

and where the Judgment, decree or final order appealed from

affirms the decision of the Court immediately below the Court

passing such Judgment, decree or final order, the appeal must

involve some substantial question of law.

Bar of 111. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 109, no appeal

certain
appeals. shall lie to the 82[Appellate Division]-

(a) from the decree or order of one Judge of the High Court Division,
 or of one Judge of a Division Court, or of two or more Judges of
High Court Division, or of a Division Court constituted by two or
more Judges of High Court Division, where such Judges are equally
divided in opinion and do not amount in number to a majority of the
whole of the Judges of the High Court Division at the time being; or
83 [* * *]

111A 111A. [Omitted by section 2 of the Federal Court Act, 1941 (Act No.
[Omitted]
XXI of 1941).]

Savings 112.(1) Nothing contained in this Code shall be deemed-

(a) to affect the powers of the 84 [Appellate Division under article 103

of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh] or any

other provision of that Constitution; or

(b) to interfere with any rules made by the Supreme Court, and for
the time being in force, for the presentation of appeals 85 [to the

Appellate Division], or their conduct 86[before that Division].

(2) Nothing herein contained applies to any matter of criminal or

admiralty or vice-admiralty jurisdiction, or to appeals from orders

and decrees of Prize Courts.

PART VIII
REFERENCE, REVIEW AND REVISION

Reference 113. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be

of High
Court prescribed, any Court may state a case and refer the same for the
Division. opinion of the High Court Division, and the High Court Division may

make such order thereon as it thinks fit.

Review 114. Subject as aforesaid, any person considering himself

aggrieved-
 (a) by a decree or order from which an appeal is allowed by this

Code, but from which no appeal has been preferred,

(b) by a decree or order from which no appeal is allowed by this

Code, or

(c) by a decision on a reference from a Court of Small Causes

may apply for a view of judgment to the Court which passed the

decree or made the order, and the Court may make such order

thereon as it thinks fit.

Revision 87 [115.(1) The High Court Division may, on the application of any

party aggrieved, call for the record of any suit or proceedings, in

which a decree or an order has been passed by a Court of District

Judge or Additional District Judge, or a decree has been passed by

a Court of Joint District Judge, Senior Assistant Judge or Assistant

Judge, from which no appeal lies; and if such Court appears to have

committed any error of law resulting in an error in such decree or

order occasioning failure of justice, the High Court Division may,

revise such decree or order and, make such order in the suit or
proceedings, as it thinks fit.

(2) The Court of District Judge may, on the application of any party

aggrieved, call for the record of any suit or proceeding, in which an

order has been passed by a Court of Joint District Judge, Senior

Assistant Judge or Assistant Judge, from which no appeals lies; and

if such Court appears to have committed any error of law resulting in

an error in such order occasioning failure of justice, the Court of

District Judge may, revise such order and, make such order as it

thinks fit.

(3) A Court of Additional District Judge shall have all the powers of

the District Judge under sub-section (2) in respect of revision case

 which may be transferred to it by the District Judge.

(4) An application to the High Court Division for revision of an order

of the District Judge or, Additional District Judge, as the case may
be, made under sub-section (2) or (3) shall lie, where the High Court

Division grants leave for revision on an (4) An application to the

High Court Division for revision of an order of the District Judge or,

Additional District Judge, as the case may be, made under sub-

section (2) or (3) shall lie, where the High Court Division grants
leave for revision on an error of an important question of law

resulting in erroneous decision occasioning failure of justice, and the

High Court Division may make such order in the suit or proceeding
as it thinks fit.

(5) Notwithstanding the substitution of this section, any proceeding

commenced and pending under section 115 prior to such

substitution shall be disposed of in such manner as if section 115

has not been substituted.]

PART IX
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO HIGH COURT DIVISION

Part to 116. This Part applies only to High Court Division.

apply only
to certain
High Court
Division.

Application 117. Save as provided in this Part or in Part X or in rules, the

of Code to
High Court provisions of this Code shall apply to High Court Division.
Division.

Execution 118. Where any High Court Division considers it necessary that a
of decree
before decree passed in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction should
ascertainment be executed before the amount of the costs incurred in the suit can
of costs.
 be ascertained by taxation, the Court may order that the decree

shall be executed forthwith, except as to so much thereof as relates

to the costs;

and, as to so much thereof as relates to the costs, that the decree

may be executed as soon as the amount of the costs shall be

ascertained by taxation.

Unauthorised 119. Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to authorise any person
persons
not to on behalf of another to address the Court in the exercise of its
Address original civil jurisdiction, or to examine witnesses, except where the
Court.
Court shall have in the exercise of the power conferred by its charter
authorised him so to do, or to interfere with the power of the High

Court Division to make rules concerning advocates 88[* **].

Provisions 120.(1) The following provisions shall not apply to the High Court
not
applicable Division in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction, namely,
to High sections 16, 17 and 20.
Court
Division in
original
civil
jurisdiction.

PART X
RULES

Effect of 121. The rules in the First Schedule shall have effect as if enacted in
rules in
First the body of this Code until annulled or altered in accordance with
Schedule. the provisions of this Part.

Power of 89 [122. The Supreme Court may, from time to time after previous
Supreme
Court to publication, make rules regulating the procedure of each Division of
make the Supreme Court and the procedure of Civil Courts subject to its
rules.
Superintendence and may by such rules annul, alter or add to all or
 any of the rules in the First Schedule.]

Constitution 123.(1) A Committee, to be called the Rule Committee, shall be

of Rule
Committees. constituted 90[for the purpose] referred to in section 122.
91 [(2) Such Committee shall consist of the following persons,

namely:-

(a) three Judges of the Supreme Court, one of whom at least has

served as a District Judge for three years;

(b) two advocates parctising in that Court; and

(c) a Judge of a Civil Court subordinate to the High Court Division.]

(3) The members of 92

[* * *] such Committee shall be appointed by
the Chief Justice, who shall also nominate one of their number to be

president:

Provided that, if the Chief Justice elects to be himself a member of

93
[the Committee], the number of other Judges appointed to be
members shall be two, and the Chief Justice shall be the President

of the Committee.

(4) Each member of 94

[such committee] shall hold office for such
period as may be prescribed by the Chief Justice in this behalf; and

whenever any member retires, resigns, dies 95 [* * *] or becomes

incapable of acting as a member of the Committee, the said Chief

Justice may appoint another person to be a member in his stead.

(5) There shall be a Secretary to 96 [* * *] such Committee, who shall

be appointed by the Chief Justice and shall receive such

remuneration as may be provided in this behalf by the Government.

Committee 124. 97
[The] Rule Committee shall make a report to the 98
[Supreme
to report
to Court] 99 [* **] on any proposal to annul, alter or add to the rules in
Supreme the First Schedule or to make new rules, and before making any
Court.
 rules under section 122 the [Supreme Court] shall take such report

into consideration.

[Omitted] 125. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Central Laws

(Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (Ordinance No. XXI of 1960).]

Rules to 100
[126. Rules made under the foregoing provisions shall be subject
be subject
to to the previous approval of the President.].
approval.

Publication 127. Rules so made and approved shall be published in the official
of rules.
Gazette, and shall from the date of publication or from such other

date as may be specified have the same force and effect 101[* * *] as
if they had been contained in the First Schedule.

Matters for 128.(1) Such rules shall be not inconsistent with the provisions in
which
rules may the body of this Code, but, subject thereto, may provide for any
provide. matters relating to the procedure of Civil Courts.

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the

powers conferred by sub-section (1), such rules may provide for all

or any of the following matters, namely;-

(a) the service of summonses, notices and other processes by post

or in any other manner either generally or in any specified areas,

and the proof of such service;

(b) the maintenance and custody, while under attachment, of live-

stock and other movable property, the fees payable for such
maintenance and custody, the sale of such live-stock and property,

and the proceeds of such sale;

(c) procedure in suits by way of counterclaim, and the valuation of

such suits for the purposes of jurisdiction;
(d) procedure in garnishee and charging orders either in addition to,

or in substitution for, the attachment and sale of debts;

(e) procedure where the defendant claims to be entitled to

contribution or indemnity over against any person whether a party to

the suit or not;

(f) summary procedure-

(i) in suits in which the plaintiff seeks only to recover a debt or

liquidated demand in money payable by the defendant, with or

without interest, arising-

on a contract express or implied; or

on an enactment where the sum sought to be recovered is a fixed

sum of money or in the nature of a debt other than a penalty; or

on a guarantee, where the claim against the principal is in respect of

a debt or a liquidated demand only; or

on a trust; or

(ii) in suits for the recovery of immovable property, with or

without a claim for rent or mesne profits, by a landlord against a

tenant whose term has expired or has been duly determined by

notice to quit, or has become liable to forfeiture for non-payment of

rent, or against persons claiming under such tenant;

(g) procedure by way of originating summons;

(h) consolidation of suits, appeals and other proceedings;

(i) delegation to any Registrar, Prothonotary or master or other

official of the Court of any judicial, quasi-judicial and non-judicial

duties; and

(j) all forms, registers, books, entries and accounts which may be

necessary or desirable for the transaction of the business of Civil

 Courts.

[Omitted] 129. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

[Omitted] 130. [Omitted by Article 2 and Schedule of the Central Laws

(Adaptation) Order, 1961.]

[Omitted] 131. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh

Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]

PART XI
MISCELLANEOUS

Exemption 132.(1) Women who, according to the customs and manners of the
of certain
women country, ought not to be compelled to appear in public shall be
from exempt from personal appearance in Court.
personal
appearance. (2) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to exempt such

women from arrest in execution of civil process in any case in which

the arrest of women is not prohibited by this Code.

Exemption 133.(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,

of other
persons. exempt from personal appearance in Court any person whose rank,

in the opinion of 102

[the Government], entitles him to the privilege of
exemption.

(2) The names and residences of the persons so exempted shall,

from time to time, be forwarded to the High Court Division by the

Government and a list of such persons shall be kept in such Court,

and a list of such persons as reside within the local limits of the

jurisdiction of each Court subordinate to the High Court Division

shall be kept in such subordinate Court.

(3) Where any person so exempted claims the privilege of such

 exemption, and it is consequently necessary to examine him by

commission, he shall pay the costs of that commission, unless the

party requiring his evidence pays such costs.

Arrest 134. The provisions of sections 55, 57 and 59 shall apply, so far as
other than
in may be, to all persons arrested under this Code.
execution
of decree.

Exemption 135.(1) No Judge, Magistrate or other judicial officer shall be liable

from
arrest to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning
under civil from, his Court.
process.
(2) Where any matter is pending before a tribunal having jurisdiction

therein, or believing in good faith that it has such jurisdiction, the

parties thereto, their pleaders, mukhtars, revenue-agents and

recognised agents, and their witnesses acting in obedience to a

summons, shall be exempt from arrest under civil process other

than process issued by such tribunal for contempt of Court while

going to or attending such tribunal for the purpose of such matter,

and while returning from such tribunal.

(3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall enable a judgment-debtor to

claim exemption from arrest under an order for immediate execution

or where such judgment-debtor attends to show cause why he

should not be committed to prison in execution of a decree.

Exemption 103
[135A.(1) No person shall be liable to arrest or detention in prison
of
members under civil process-
of (a) if he is a member of 104 [Parliament] during the continuance of
legislative
bodies any meeting of 105[Parliament];
from
(b) if he is a member of any committee of 106 [Parliament], during the
arrest and
detention
under civil continuance of any meeting of such committee;
process.
and during the fourteen days before and after such meeting or

sitting.

(2) A person released from detention under sub-section (1) shall,

subject to the provisions of the said sub-section, be liable to re-

arrest and to the further detention to which he would have been

liable if he had not been released under the provisions of sub-

section (1).]

Procedure 136.(1) Where an application is made that any person shall be

where
person to arrested or that any property shall be attached under any provision
be of this Code not relating to the execution of decrees, and such
arrested
person resides or such property is situate outside the local limits of
or
property the jurisdiction of the Court to which the application is made, the
to be
Court may, in its discretion, issue a warrant of arrest or make an
attached
is outside order of attachment, and send to the District Court within the local
district.
limits of whose jurisdiction such person or property resides or is

situate a copy of the warrant or order, together with the probable

amount of the costs of the arrest or attachment.

(2) The District Court shall, on receipt of such copy and amount,
cause the arrest or attachment to be made by its own officers, or by

a Court subordinate to itself, and shall inform the Court which issued
or made such warrant or order of the arrest or attachment.

(3) The Court making an arrest under this section shall send the

person arrested to the Court by which the warrant of arrest was

issued, unless he shows cause to the satisfaction of the former

Court why he should not be sent to the latter Court, or unless he

furnishes sufficient security for his appearance before the latter

Court or for satisfying any decree that may be passed against him
 by that Court, in either of which cases the Court making the arrest

shall release him.

Language 137.(1) The language which, on the commencement of this Code, is

of
subordinate the language of any Court subordinate to the High Court Division
Courts. shall continue to be the language of such subordinate Court until the

Government otherwise directs.

(2) The Government may declare what shall be the language of any
such Court and in what character applications to and proceedings in

such Courts shall be written.

(3) Where this Code requires or allows anything other than the
recording of evidence to be done in writing in any such Court, such

writing may be in English; but if any party or his pleader is

unacquainted with English a translation into the language of the

Court shall, at his request, be supplied to him; and the Court shall

make such order as it thinks fit in respect of the payment of the

costs of such translation.

Power of 138.(1) The High Court Division may, by notification in the official
High Court
Division to Gazette, direct with respect to any Judge specified in the
require notification, or falling under a description set forth therein, that
evidence
evidence in cases in which an appeal is allowed shall be taken
to be
recorded down by him in the English language and in manner prescribed.
in English.
(2) Where a Judge is prevented by any sufficient reason from

complying with a direction under sub-section (1), he shall record the

reason and cause the evidence to be taken down in writing from his

dictation in open Court.

Oath on 139. In the case of any affidavit under this Code-

affidavit
by whom (a) any Court or Magistrate, or
to be
(b) any officer or other person whom 107 [the Supreme Court] may
administered.
appoint in this behalf, or

(c) any officer appointed by any other Court which the Government

has generally or specially empowered in this behalf,

may administer the oath to the deponent.

Assessors 140.(1) In any Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty cause of salvage, towage

in causes
of salvage, or collision, the Court, whether it be exercising its original or its
etc. appellate jurisdiction, may, if it thinks fit, and shall upon request of

either party to such cause, summon to its assistance, in such

manner as it may direct or as may be prescribed, two competent

assessors; and such assessors shall attend and assist accordingly.

(2) Every such assessor shall receive such fees for his attendance,
to be paid by such of the parties as the Court may direct or as may

be prescribed.

Miscellaneous 141. The procedure provided in this Code in regard to suits shall be
proceedings.
followed, as far as it can be made applicable, in all proceedings in
any Court of civil jurisdiction.

Orders 142. All orders and notices served on or given to any person under
and
notices to the provisions of this Code shall be in writing.
be in
writing.

Postage 143. Postage, where chargeable on a notice, summons or letter

issued under this Code and forwarded by post, and the fee for
registering the same, shall be paid within a time to be fixed before

the communication is made:

Provided that the Government may remit such postage, or fee, or

both, or may prescribed a scale of court-fees to be levied in lieu

 thereof.

Application 144.(1) Where and in so far as a decree is varied or reversed, the

for
restitution. Court of first instance shall, on the application of any party entitled

to any benefit by way of restitution or otherwise, cause such

restitution to be made as will, so far as may be, place the parties in

the position which they would have occupied but for such decree or
such part thereof as has been varied or reversed; and, for this

purpose, the Court may make any orders, including orders for the

refund of costs and for the payment of interest, damages,

compensation and mesne profits, which are properly consequential

on such variation or reversal.

(2) No suit shall be instituted for the purpose of obtaining any

restitution or other relief which could be obtained by application

under sub-section (1).

Enforcement 145. Where any person has become liable as surety-

of liability
of surety. (a) for the performance of any decree or any part thereof, or

(b) for the restitution of any property taken in execution of a decree,

or

(c) for the payment of any money, or for the fulfilment of any
condition imposed on any person, under an order of the Court in any

suit or in any proceedings consequent thereon,

the decree or order may be executed against him, to the extent to

which he has rendered himself personally liable, in the manner

herein provided for the execution of decrees, and such person shall,

for the purposes of appeal, be deemed a party within the meaning of

section 47:

Provided that such notice as the Court in each case thinks sufficient
 has been given to the surety.

Proceedings 146. Save as otherwise provided by this Code or by any law for the
by or
against time being in force, where any proceeding may be taken or
representatives.
application made by or against any person, then the proceeding
may be taken or the application may be made by or against any

person claiming under him.

Consent 147. In all suits to which any person under disability is a party, any
or
agreement consent or agreement, as to any proceeding shall, if given or made
by with the express leave of the Court by the next friend or guardian for
persons
the suit, have the same force and effect as if such person, were
under
disability. under no disability and had given such consent or made such

agreement.

Enlargement 148. Where any period is fixed or granted by the Court for the doing
of time.
of any act prescribed or allowed by this Code, the Court may, in its
discretion, from time to time, enlarge such period, even though the

period originally fixed or granted may have expired.

Power to 149. Where the whole or any part of any fee prescribed for any
make up
deficiency document by the law for the time being in force relating to court-fees
of court- has not been paid, the Court may, in its discretion, at any stage,
fees.
allow the person, by whom such fee is payable, to pay the whole or

part, as the case may be, of such court-fee; and upon such payment
the document, in respect of which such fee is payable, shall have

the same force and effect as if such fee had been paid in the first

instance.

Transfer of 150. Save as otherwise provided, where the business of any Court
business.
is transferred to any other Court, the Court to which the business is
 so transferred shall have the same powers and shall perform the

same duties as those respectively conferred and imposed by or

under this Code upon the Court from which the business was so

transferred.

Saving of 151. Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to limit or otherwise

inherent
powers of affect the inherent power of the Court to make such orders as may
Court. be necessary for the ends of justice or to prevent abuse of the

process of the Court.

Amendment 152. Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in judgments, decrees or

of
judgments, orders or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission
decrees or may at any time be corrected by the Court either of its own motion
orders.
or on the application of any of the parties.

General 153. The Court may at any time, and on such terms as to costs or
power to
amend. otherwise as it thinks fit, amend any defect or error in any
proceeding in a suit; and all necessary amendments shall be made

for the purpose of determining the real question or issue raised by

or depending on such proceeding.

Saving of 154. Nothing in this Code shall affect any present right of appeal
present
right of which shall have accrued to any party at its commencement.
appeal.

Amendment 155. The enactments mentioned in the Fourth Schedule are hereby
of certain
Acts. amended to the extent specified in the fourth column thereof.

[Repealed] 156. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Second

Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (Act No. XVII of 1914).]

[Omitted] 157-158. [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the

 Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII

of 1973).]

1
The words and figure "section 47 or" were omitted by the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance,
1983 (Ordinance No. XLVIII of 1983)

2
The commas and words ", and includes an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of a High Court" were omitted by
section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

3
The words "The Republic" were substituted, for the words "Pakistan" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

4
The word "Republic" was substituted, for the word "State" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

5
The word "Republic" was substituted, for the word "Government" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

6
The words "or local" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

7
The word "local" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

8
The word "Provincial" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

9
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

10
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

11
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

12
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

13
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

14
The words "Bangladesh Biman" were substituted, for the words "Pakistan International Airways" by section 3
and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

15
The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

16
The words "Cox's Bazar" were substituted, for the word "Muree" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

17The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

18The word "Khulna" was substituted, for the word "Bahawalpur" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

19The words "at Khulna" was substituted, for the word "Bahawalpur" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

20The word "Chittagong" was substituted, for the word "Karachi" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

21The words "but to the same High Court" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

22The word "said" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

23 Section 24A was inserted by section 7 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, 1962
(Ordinance No. XLIV of 1962)

24 The word "Government" was substituted, for the words "Courts issuing such summons of processes have
been established or continued by the authority of the Central Government or that the Provincial Government of
the Province in which such summonses or processes are to be served" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

25Section 35A was substituted, by section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act
No. XL of 2003)

26 Section 35B was inserted by section 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No.
XL of 2003)

27 The words and comma "or by any Court established or continued by the authority of the Central Government
in any Acceding State," were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

28Section 44A was inserted by section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1937 (Act No. VIII of
1937)

29The words "the United Kingdom or" were omitted by section 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third
Amendment), 2003 (Act No. XL of 2003)

30 Explanation 1 was omitted by section 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No.
XL of 2003)

31 The word "any" was substituted, for the words "the United Kingdom and such other" by section 4 of the Code
of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No. XL of 2003)

32Clause (a) of explanation 3 was omitted by section 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act,
2003 (Act No. XL of 2003)

33The word "Republic" was substituted, for the word "State" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
34The words "the Railway" were substituted, for the words "a railway" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

35 The words, commas and figures "Army Act, 1952, Navy Ordinance, 1961, or the Air Force Act, 1953," were
substituted, for the words, commas, figures and brackets "Pakistan Army Act, 1952, applies, or of persons other
than commissioned officers to whom the Naval Discipline Act as modified by the Pakistan Navy (Discipline) Act,
1934," by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No.
VIII of 1973)

36The word "Republic" was substituted, for the word "State" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

37The words "the Railway" were substituted, for the words "a railway" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

38The word "Republic" was substituted, for the word "State" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

39The words "the Railway" were substituted, for the words "a railway" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

40Explanation 3 was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

41 Clause (b) was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration)
Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

42 The words "shall be Bangladesh" were substituted, for the words "shall be" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

43Clause (a) and (b) were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

44 Clauses (a) was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration)
Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

45The words "the Railway" were substituted, for the words "a railway" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

46The words "the Government" were substituted, for the words "that Government" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

47The words "the Railway" were substituted, for the words "a railway" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

48The word "concerned" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

49The word "Bangladesh" was substituted, for the words "the Provinces" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

50The word "Bangladesh" was substituted, for the words "the Provinces" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
51
The word "Bangladesh" was substituted, for the words "the Provinces" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

52
Sections 86 and 86A were substituted, for the original section 86 by section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure
(Amendment) Ordinance, 1970 (Ordinance No. VI of 1970)

53
Sections 89A and 89B were inserted by section 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act
No. IV of 2003)

54
The words, comma, figures and bracket “Artha Rin Adalat Ain, 2003 (Act No. 8 of 2003)” were substituted for
the words, comma, figures and bracket “Artha Rin Adalat Ain, 1990 (Act No. 4 of 1990)” by section 2(a)(i) of the
Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. XXXVI of 2012).

55
The words “the Court shall” were substituted for the words “the Court may” by section 2(a)(ii) of the Code of
Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. XXXVI of 2012).

56
The words, commas, figures and breakets “to the concerned Legal Aid Officer appointed under the Legal Aid
Act, 2000 (Act No. 6 of 2000), or” were inserted after the words “or refer the dispute or disputes in the suit” by
section 2(a) of Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

57
The full-stop (.) was substituted for the colon (:) and thereafter the proviso was omitted by section 2(a)(iii) of
The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. XXXVI of 2012).

58
Sub-section (3) was substituted by section 2(b) of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act
No. XXXVI of 2012).

59
The words “or Legal Aid Officer” were inserted after the words “when the court” by section 2(b) of Code of
Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

60
Sub-section (4) was substituted by section 2(c) of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act
No. XXXVI of 2012).

61
The words and comma “or the dispute or disputes are referred to Legal Aid Officer, or a mediator is appointed
by the Court” were substituted for the words “or a mediator is appointed by the Court” by section 2(c) of Code of
Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

62
Sub-section (5) was substituted by section 2(d) of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act
No. XXXVI of 2012).

63
The words and commas “Legal Aid Officer or mediator, as the case may be,” were substituted for the word
“mediator” by section 2(d) of Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

64
The words and commas “Legal Aid Officer or mediator, as the case may be,” were substituted for the word
“mediator” by section 2(d) of Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

65
The words “prepare a report and pass an order in the manner” were substituted for the words “make a report
and passed order in a manner similar” by section 2(e) of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012
(Act No. XXXVI of 2012).

66
The comma and words “, Legal Aid Officer” were inserted after the word “representatives” by section 2(e) of
Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2017.

67
Section 89C was inserted by section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2006 (Act No. VIII of
2006)
68The word “shall” was substituted for the word “may” by section 3(a) of The Code of Civil Procedure
(Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. XXXVI of 2012).

69Sub-section (2) was substituted by section 3(b) of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act
No. XXXVI of 2012).

70Section 89D and 89E were inserted by section 4 of The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act
No. XXXVI of 2012).

71The words "Attorney General" were substituted, for the words "Advocate General" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

72The words "Attorney General" were substituted, for the words "Advocate General" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

73The words "Attorney General" were substituted, for the words "Advocate General" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

74The words "Attorney General" were substituted, for the words "Advocate General" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

75 The words "ten thousand" were substituted, for the words "one thousand" by section 5 of the Code of Civil
Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No. XL of 2003)

76 Clause (a) to (f) were omitted by section 49 and 3rd Schedule of the Arbitration Act, 1940 (Act No. X of 1940)

77 Clause (ff) was inserted by section 3 of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1922 (Act No. IX of 1922)

78The words "or local" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

79The words "Appellate Division" were substituted, for the words "Supreme Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

80The words "Appellate Division" were substituted, for the words "Supreme Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

81The words "Appellate Division" were substituted, for the words "Supreme Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

82The words "Appellate Division" were substituted, for the words "Supreme Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

83 Clause (b) was omitted by the Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)

84 The words and figure "Appellate Division under article 103 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of
Bangladesh" were substituted, for the words and figure "Supreme Court under Article 158 of the Constitution" by
section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

85The words "to the Appellate Division" were substituted, for the words "to that Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

86The words "before that Division" were substituted, for the words "before that Court" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
87Section 115 was substituted, by section 6 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Third Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act
No. XL of 2003)

88The comma and words ", vakils and attorneys" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the
Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

89Section 122 was substituted, for the original section 122 by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh
Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

90 The words "for the purpose" were substituted, for the words "at the town which is the usual place of siting of
each of the High Courts" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration)
Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

91Sub-section (2) was substituted, by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

92The word "each" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

93 The words "the Committee" were substituted, for the words "a Committee" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

94The words "such Committee" were substituted, for the words "any such Committee" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

95 The words and comma "or ceases to reside in the Province in which the Committee was constituted," were
omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No.
VIII of 1973)

96The word "each" was omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And
Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

97 The word "The" was substituted, for the word "Every" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws
(Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

98 The words "Supreme Court" were substituted, for the words "High Court" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

99 The words "established at the town at which it is constituted" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

100 The words "Supreme Court" were substituted, for the words "High Court" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

101 The commas and words ", within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the High Court which made them," were
omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No.
VIII of 1973)

102The words "the Government" were substituted, for the words "such Government" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

103Section 135A was inserted by section 3 of the Legislative Members Exemption Act, 1925 (Act No. XXIII of
1925)
104The word "Parliament" was substituted, for the letter and word "a Legislature" by section 3 and 2nd
Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

105 The word "Parliament" was substituted, for the words "such Legislature" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

106 The word "Parliament" was substituted, for the words "such Legislature" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of
the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

107The words "the Supreme Court" were substituted, for the letter and word "a High Court" by section 3 and
2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

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