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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order II: Frame Of Suit

Order II Rule 6 CPC: Power of Court to order separate trials

Bare Act text

[6. Power of Court to order separate trials.—Where it appears to the Court that the joinder of causes of action in one suit may embarrass or delay the trial or is otherwise inconvenient, the Court may order separate trials or make such other order as may be expedient in the interests of justice.]

Amendment notes

  1. Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 53, for rule 6 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), First Schedule, as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Where joining causes of action in one suit may embarrass or delay the trial, or is otherwise inconvenient, the Court may order separate trials or make such other order as is expedient in the interests of justice. This rule was substituted by the 1976 amendment.

Order II: Frame Of Suit

  1. 1 Frame of suit
  2. 2 Suit to include the whole claim
  3. 3 Joinder of causes of action
  4. 4 Only certain claims to be joined for recovery of immovable property
  5. 5 Claims by or against executor, administrator or heir
  6. 6 Power of Court to order separate trials
  7. 7 Objections as to misjoinder