First Schedule — Order XLI: Appeals From Original Decrees

Order 41 Rule 16 — Right to begin

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

(1) On the day fixed, or on any other day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the appellant shall be heard in support of the appeal.

(2) The Court shall then, if it does not dismiss the appeal at once, hear the respondent against the appeal, and in such case the appellant shall be entitled to reply.