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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part IV: Suits In Particular Cases

Section 87 CPC: Style of foreign Rulers as parties to suits

Bare Act text

87. Style of foreign Rulers as parties to suits.—The Ruler of a foreign State may sue, and shall be sued, in the name of his State:

Provided that in giving the consent referred to in section 86, the Central Government may direct that the Ruler may be sued in the name of an agent or in any other name.

Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

The Ruler of a foreign State may sue, and shall be sued, in the name of his State. The proviso allows the Central Government, when giving the consent required by section 86, to direct that the Ruler be sued in the name of an agent or in any other name.

Part IV: Suits In Particular Cases

  1. 79 Suits by or against Government
  2. 80 Notice
  3. 81 Exemption from arrest and personal appearance
  4. 82 Execution of decree
  5. 83 When aliens may sue
  6. 84 When foreign States may sue
  7. 85 Persons specially appointed by Government to prosecute or defend on behalf of foreign Rulers
  8. 86 Suits against foreign Rulers, Ambassadors and Envoys
  9. 87 Style of foreign Rulers as parties to suits
  10. 87A Definitions of “foreign State” and “Rulers”
  11. 87B Application of sections 85 and 86 to Rulers of former Indian States
  12. 88 Where interpleader-suit may be instituted
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