Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Inconsistent pleas can be taken in pleadings...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Initially suit was filed claiming it as easementary right - Alternative plea of passage being a public passage has been sought by way of amendment - Nature of suit not changed by allowing the amendment, rather it remained the same - Application rightly allowed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Proposed amendment is foreign to case set up in plaint - Amendment would cause irreparable loss to defendants - Moreover, trial Court passed the order allowing amendment without any due application of mind by simply referring to respective contentions of parties and thereafter, in a mundane manner..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Impleadment of a party - Even in an application U.O.1.R.10 CPC for addition of a party, O.6.R.17 CPC is required to be followed for the purpose of consequential amendment(s) - When main purpose is to bring change in the nature of relief in the suit, plaintiff ought to have stated..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Written statement - Amendment - A defendant who has not filed written statement but has adopted written statement filed by another defendant has no right to seek amendment of written statement not filed by him...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - An individual plaintiff or an individual defendant cannot seek to amend plaint or written statement filed jointly...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Amendment of joint plaint or joint written statement - Application for amendment has to be filed by all the plaintiffs or all the defendants, who have filed said pleadings jointly...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Pre-trial amendment be granted liberally unless it causes serious prejudice to interest of defendant, in as much as, such amendment sought for is either time barred, barred by law, change the nature of suit or cause serious prejudice to interest of opposite party...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - After commencement of trial - Burden is on the person who seeks an amendment after commencement of trial to show that inspite of due diligence, such an amendment could not have been sought earlier...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - After commencement of trial - Plaintiff failed to show that inspite of due diligence, she could not file application for amendment before commencement of trial - Order allowing application set aside...........
