9. Effect of document to be stated.—Wherever the contents of any document are material, it shall be sufficient in any pleading to state the effect thereof as briefly as possible, without setting out the whole or any part thereof, unless the precise words of the document or any part thereof are material.
Order VI Rule 9 CPC: Effect of document to be stated
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
Where the contents of a document are material, it is enough in a pleading to state its effect as briefly as possible, without setting out the whole or any part of it, unless the precise words of the document or a part are material.
Order VI: Pleadings Generally
- 1 Pleading
- 2 Pleading to state material facts and not evidence
- 3 Forms of pleading
- 4 Particulars to be given where necessary
- 5 Further and better statement, or particulars (Omitted)
- 6 Condition precedent
- 7 Departure
- 8 Denial of contract
- 9 Effect of document to be stated
- 10 Malice, knowledge, etc
- 11 Notice
- 12 Implied contract, or relation
- 13 Presumptions of law
- 14 Pleading to be signed
- 14A Address for service of notice
- 15 Verification of pleadings
- 16 Striking out pleadings
- 17 Amendment of pleadings
- 18 Failure to amend after order