Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order XIII: Production, Impounding And Return Of Documents

Order XIII Rule 4 CPC: Endorsements on documents admitted in evidence

Bare Act text

4. Endorsements on documents admitted in evidence.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the next following sub-rule, there shall be endorsed on every document which has been admitted in evidence in the suit the following particulars, namely:—

(a) the number and title of the suit,

(b) the name of the person producing the document,

(d) a statement of its having been so admitted, and the endorsement shall be signed or initialled by the Judge.

(2) Where a document so admitted is an entry in a book, account or record, and a copy thereof has been substituted for the original under the next following rule, the particulars aforesaid shall be endorsed on the copy and the endorsement thereon shall be signed or initialled by the Judge.

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

Every document admitted in evidence in the suit must have endorsed on it the number and title of the suit, the name of the person producing it, the date of production, and a statement that it was admitted, signed or initialled by the Judge. Where the document is an entry in a book, account or record and a copy has been substituted for the original under rule 5, these particulars are endorsed on the copy, again signed or initialled by the Judge.