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The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: page 143

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    *[(3A) A party shall, within four weeks prior to commencing the oral arguments, submit concisely
and under distinct headings written arguments in support of his case to the Court and such written
arguments shall form part of the record.
    (3B) The written arguments shall clearly indicate the provisions of the laws being cited in support of
the arguments and the citations of judgments being relied upon by the party and include copies of such
judgments being relied upon by the party.
    (3C) A copy of such written arguments shall be furnished simultaneously to the opposite party.
    (3D) The Court may, if it deems fit, after the conclusion of arguments, permit the parties to file
revised written arguments within a period of not more than one week after the date of conclusion of
arguments.
    (3E) No adjournment shall be granted for the purpose of filing the written arguments unless the
Court, for reasons to be recorded in writing, considers it necessary to grant such adjournment.
    (3F) It shall be open for the Court to limit the time for oral submissions having regard to the nature
and complexity of the matter.]
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                                                      STATE AMENDMENT
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).—                                                  e
     In Rule 2, after sub-rule (3), insert the following sub-rules, namely:-  od
   (3A) A party shall, within four weeks prior to commencing the oral arguments, submit concisely and
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under distinct headings written arguments in support of his case to the court and such written arguments
shall form part of the record.
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   (3B) The written arguments shall clearly indicate the provisions of the laws being cited in support of
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the arguments and the citations of judgments being relied upon by the party and include copies of such
judgments being relied upon by the party.
    (3C) A copy of such written arguments shall be furnished simultaneously to the opposite party.
   (3D) The court may, if it deems fit, after the conclusion of arguments, permit the parties to file revised
written arguments within a period of not more than one week after the date of conclusion of arguments.
   (3E) No adjournment shall be granted for the purpose of filing the written arguments unless the court,
for reasons to be recorded in writing, considers it necessary to grant such adjournment.
  (3F) It shall be open for the court to limit the time for oral submissions having regard to the nature and
complexity of the matter.
    [Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, vide
notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation
(Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, Notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020)].
    3. Evidence where several issues.—Where there are several issues, the burden of proving some of
which lies on the other party, the party beginning may, at his option, either produce his evidence on those
issues or reserve it by way of answer to the evidence produced by the other party; and, in the latter case,
the party beginning may produce evidence on those issues after the other party has produced all his
evidence, and the other party may then reply specially on the evidence so produced by the party
beginning; but the party beginning will then be entitled to reply generally on the whole case.




1. Sub-rule (4) omitted by Act 46 of 1999, s. 27 (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).
* Subs. by Act 4 of 2016, s. 16 and Sch., for Sub-rules (3A), (3B), (3C), (3D), 3(E) and 3(F), Shall be applicable to commercial disputes
of a specified value (w.e.f. 23-10-2015).

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