First Schedule — Order XX: Judgment and Decree

Order 20 Rule 16 — Decree in suit for account between principal and agent

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

In a suit for an account of pecuniary transactions between a principal and an agent, and in any other suit not hereinbefore provided for, where it is necessary, in order to ascertain the amount of money due to or from any party, that an account should be taken, the Court shall, before passing its final decree, pass a preliminary decree directing such accounts to be taken as it thinks fit.