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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order XXXVI: Special Case

Order XXXVI Rule 2 CPC: Where value of subject-matter must be stated

Bare Act text

2. Where value of subject-matter must be stated.—Where the agreement is for the delivery of any property, or for the doing, or the refraining from doing, any particular act, the estimated value of the property to be delivered, or to which the act specified has reference, shall be stated in the agreement.

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 an agreement stating a case for the Court's opinion is for delivery of property, or for doing or refraining from a particular act, the agreement must state the estimated value of the property to be delivered or of the subject to which the act relates.

Order XXXVI: Special Case

  1. 1 Power to state case for Court’s opinion
  2. 2 Where value of subject-matter must be stated
  3. 3 Agreement to be filed and registered as suit
  4. 4 Parties to be subject to Court's jurisdiction
  5. 5 Hearing and disposal of case
  6. 6 No appeal from a decree passed under rule 5