5. Injection to corporation binding on its officer.—An injunction directed to a corporation is binding not only on the corporation itself, but also on all members and officers of the corporation whose personal action it seeks to restrain.
Order XXXIX Rule 5 CPC: Injunction to corporation binding on its officers
Bare Act text
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
An injunction directed to a corporation binds not only the corporation itself but also all members and officers of the corporation whose personal action it seeks to restrain.
Order XXXIX: Temporary Injunctions And Interlocutory Orders
- 1 Cases in which temporary injunction may be granted
- 2 Injunction to restrain repetition or continuance of breach
- 2A Consequence of disobedience or breach of injunction
- 3 Before granting injunction, Court to direct notice to opposite party
- 3A Court to dispose of application for injunction within thirty days
- 4 Order for injunction may be discharged, varied or set aside
- 5 Injunction to corporation binding on its officers
- 6 Power to order interim sale
- 7 Detention, preservation, inspection, etc., of subject-matter of suit
- 8 Application for such orders to be after notice
- 9 When party may be put in immediate possession of land the subject-matter of suit
- 10 Deposit of money, etc., in Court