First Schedule — Order VIII: Written Statement, Set-Off and Counter Claim
Order 8 Rule 9 — Subsequent pleadings
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read
No pleading subsequent to the written statement of a defendant other than by way of defence to set-off or counter-claim shall be presented except by the leave of the Court and upon such terms as the Court thinks fit; but the Court may at any time require a written statement or additional written statement from any of the parties and fix a time of not more than thirty days for presenting the same.