Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Enforcement of decree against legal representative
(1) Where a decree is passed against a party as the legal representative of a deceased person, and the decree is for the payment o…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Powers of court to enforce execution
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the court may, on the application of the decree-holder, order exe…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Legal representative
(1) Where a judgment-debtor dies before the decree has been fully satisfied, the holder of the decree may apply to the court which…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Transferee of decree
Every transferee of a decree shall hold the same subject to the equities, if any, which the judgment-debtor might have enforced ag…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Questions to be determined by court executing decree
(1) All questions arising between the parties to the suit in which the decree was passed, or their representatives, and relating t…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Powers of court in executing transferred decree
(1) The court executing a decree sent to it shall have the same powers in executing such decree as if it had been passed by itself…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Result of execution proceedings to be certified
The court to which a decree is sent for execution shall certify to the court which passed it the fact of such execution, or where…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Transfer of decree
(1) The court which passed a decree may, on the application of the decreeholder, send it for execution to another court— (a) if th…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Court by which decree may be executed
A decree may be executed either by the court which passed it or by the court to which it is sent for execution.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Definition of “court which passed a decree”
The expression “court which passed a decree”, or words to that effect, shall, in relation to the execution of decrees, except wher…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Application to orders
The provisions of this Act relating to the execution of decrees shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to the ex…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Costs
(1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, and to the provisions of any law for the time being in force,…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Interests
(1) Where and in so far as a decree is for the payment of money, the court may, in the decree, order interest at such rate as the…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Judgment and decree
The court, after the case has been heard, shall pronounce judgment, and on such judgment a decree shall follow: Provided that it s…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Penalty for default
The court may compel the attendance of any person to whom a summons has been issued under section 22, and for that purpose may— (a…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Summons to witness
Sections 21 and 22 shall apply to summonses to give evidence or to produce documents or other material objects.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Power to order discovery and the like
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the court may, at any time, either of its own motion or on the ap…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Service where defendant resides in another district
(1) Any document which is required to be served in connexion with a suit may be sent for service in another district to a court ha…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Service on defendant
Where a suit has been duly instituted the defendant shall be served in manner prescribed to enter an appearance and answer the cla…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Institution of suits
Every suit shall be instituted in such manner as may be prescribed by rules.
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Power of High Court to withdraw and transfer case instituted in subordinate court
(1) On the application of any of the parties and after notice to the parties and after hearing such of them as desire to be heard,…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Power to transfer suits which may be instituted in more than one court
Where a suit may be instituted in any one of two or more subordinate courts, and is instituted in one of those courts, any defenda…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Objections to jurisdiction
No objection as to the place of suing shall be allowed on appeal unless such objection was taken in the court of first instance an…
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Civil Procedure Act CAP 21▤
Other suits to be instituted where defendant resides or cause of action arises
Subject to the limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted in a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction— (a)…
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