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Order XLI Rule 20 CPC - Power to adjourn hearing and direct persons appearing interested to be made respondents

Order 41 Rule 20 of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 - Power to adjourn hearing and direct persons appearing interested to be made respondents

(1) Where it appears to the Court at the hearing that any person who was a party to the suit in the Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred, but who has not been made a party to the appeal, is interested in the result of the appeal, the Court may adjourn the hearing to a future day to be fixed by the Court and direct that such person be made a respondent.

(2) No respondent shall be added under this rule, after the expiry of the period of limitation for appeal. unless the Court, for reasons to be recorded, allows that to be done, on such terms as to costs as it thinks fit.   

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