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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 138

Powerof High Court to Require Evidence to Be Recorded in English

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 138 is part of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Powerof High Court to Require Evidence to Be Recorded in English. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1 138. Power of High Court to require evidence to be recorded in English

(1) The 2 [High Court] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct with respect to any Judge specified in the notification, or falling under a description set forth therein, that evidence in cases in which an appeal is allowed shall be taken down by him in the English language and in manner prescribed.

(2) Where a Judge is prevented by any sufficient reason from complying with a direction under sub-section (1), he shall record the reason and cause the evidence to be taken down in writing from his dictation in open Court.

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1. For section 138, as applicable to Assam, see the Civil Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1941 (Assam Act 2 of 1941), section 2.

2. Substituted by Act 4 of 1914, section 2 and Schedule, Pt. I, for "L.G.".

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Section Section 138 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Powerof High Court to Require Evidence to Be Recorded in English) is reproduced on this page as part of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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