Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
General power to amend
The court may at any time, and on such terms as to costs or otherwise as it may think fit, amend any defect or error in any procee…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Amendment of judgments, decrees or orders
Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in judgments, decrees or orders, or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission,…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Execution of instruments by order of court
Where any person neglects or refuses to comply with a decree or order directing him to execute any conveyance, contract or other d…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Renumbered as section 3A.
Renumbered as section 3A.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Power to make up deficiency of court fees
Where the whole or any part of any fee prescribed for any document by the law for the time being in force relating to court fees h…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Enlargement of time
Where any period is fixed or granted by the court for the doing of any act prescribed or allowed by this Act, the court may, in it…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Execution of decree of High Court before costs ascertained
Where the High Court considers it necessary that a decree passed in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction should be exec…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Consent or agreement by persons under disability
In all suits to which any person under disability is a party, any consent or agreement as to any proceeding shall, if given or mad…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Enforcement of liability of surety
Where any person has become liable as surety— (a) for the performance of any decree or any part thereof; or (b) for the restitutio…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Application for restitution
(1) Where and in so far as a decree is varied or reversed, the court of first instance shall, on the application of the party enti…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Orders and notices to be in writing
All orders or notices served on or given to any person under this Act shall be in writing.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Miscellaneous proceedings
The procedure provided in this Act in regard to suits shall be followed as far as it may be applicable in all proceedings in any c…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Administration of oath on affidavit
In the case of any affidavit under this Act— (a) any court, magistrate, registrar of a court, notary public or commissioner of oat…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Assessors
(1) Any court may in any cause or matter pending before it in which questions may arise as to the laws or customs of any tribe, ca…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Language of courts
(1) The language of the High Court and of the Court of Appeal shall be English, and the language of subordinate courts shall be En…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Procedure relating to arrest and attachment
(1) Where an application is made to a subordinate court that any person shall be arrested or that any property shall be attached u…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Exemption from arrest under civil process
(1) No judge, magistrate or other judicial officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in or r…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Arrest other than in execution of decree
The provisions of section 40, 41 and 43 shall apply so far as may be to all persons arrested under this Act.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Exemption of certain women
(1) Women who according to the customs and manners of their community ought not to be compelled to appear in public shall be exemp…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Rules Committee
(1) There shall be a Rules Committee consisting of two judges of the High Court, two judges of the Court of Appeal, the Attorney-…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Review
Any person who considers himself aggrieved— (a) by a decree or order from which an appeal is allowed by this Act, but from which n…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Time for filing appeals from subordinate courts
Every appeal from a subordinate court to the High Court shall be filed within a period of thirty days from the date of the decree…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Appeals by paupers
A person who has been allowed to take, defend or be a party to any legal proceedings in a subordinate court as a pauper may not ap…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
No second appeal from High Court in certain cases
No second appeal from a decree passed in appeal by the High Court shall lie in any suit when the amount or value of the subject-ma…
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