ORDER XXIX SUITS BY OR AGAINST CORPORATIONS - RULE 1, 2, 3 OF CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 1908

What is Subscription and verification of pleading? How Service on corporation? What is Power to require personal attendance of officer of corporation? Rule 1, 2 and 3 of Order XXIX of Code of Civil Procedure 1908

Subscription and verification of pleading, Service on corporation and Power to require personal attendance of officer of corporation are defined under Rule 1, 2 and 3 of Order XXIX of Code of Civil Procedure 1908. Provisions under these Rules are:


 

Rule 1 Order XXIX of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Subscription and verification of pleading"

In suits by or against a corporation, any pleading may be signed and verified on behalf of the corporation by the secretary or by any director or other principal officer of the corporation who is able to depose to the facts of the case.

 

Rule 2 Order XXIX of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Service on corporation"

Subject to any statutory provision regulating service of process, where the suit is against a corporation, the summons may be served-

(a) on the secretary, or on any director, or other principal officer of the corporation, or

(b) by leaving it or sending it by post addressed to the corporation at the registered office, or if there is no registered office then at the place where the corporation carries on business.

 

Rule 3 Order XXIX of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Power to require personal attendance of officer of corporation"

The Court may, at any stage of the suit, require the personal appearance of the secretary or of any director, or other principal officer of the corporation who may be able to answer material questions relating to the suit.