First Schedule — Order XXXVI: Special Case

Order 36 Rule 3 — Agreement to be filed and registered as suit

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

(1) The agreement, if framed in accordance with the rules hereinbefore contained, may be filed [with an application] in the Court which would have jurisdiction to entertain a suit, the amount or value of the subject-matter of which is the same as the amount or value of the subject-matter of the agreement.

(2) [The application] when so filed, shall be numbered and registered as a suit between one or more of the parties claiming to be interested as plaintiff or plaintiffs, and the other or the others of them as defendant or defendants; and notice shall be given to all the parties to the agreement, other than the party or parties by whom [the application was presented.]