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

Order XIII Rule 7 CPC: Recording of admitted and return of rejected documents

Bare Act text

7. Recording of admitted and return of rejected documents.—(1) Every documents which has been admitted in evidence, or a copy thereof where a copy has been substituted for the original under rule 5, shall form part of the record of the suit.

(2) Documents not admitted in evidence shall not form part of the record and shall be returned to the persons respectively producing them.

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, or the copy substituted for the original under rule 5, forms part of the record of the suit. Documents not admitted in evidence do not form part of the record and must be returned to the persons who produced them.

Order XIII: Production, Impounding And Return Of Documents

  1. 1 Original documents to be produced at or before the settlement of issues
  2. 2 Effect of non-production of documents (Repealed)
  3. 3 Rejection of irrelevant or inadmissible documents
  4. 4 Endorsements on documents admitted in evidence
  5. 5 Endorsements on copies of admitted entries in books, accounts and records
  6. 6 Endorsements on documents rejected an inadmissible in evidence
  7. 7 Recording of admitted and return of rejected documents
  8. 8 Court may order any document to be impounded
  9. 9 Return of admitted documents
  10. 10 Court may send for papers from its own records or from other Courts
  11. 11 Provisions as to documents applied to material objects