First Schedule · Order 31 · Rule 2
Joinder of trustees, executors and administrators
2. Joinder of trustees, executors and administrators.—Where there are several trustees, executors or administrators, they shall all be made parties to a suit against one or more of them:
Provided that the executors who have not proved their testator’s will, and trustees, executors and administrators outside [India], need not be made parties.
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