First Schedule · Order 8 · Rule 6C
Exclusion of counter-claim
6C. Exclusion of counter-claim.—Where a defendant sets up a counter-claim and the plaintiff con- tends that the claim thereby raised ought not to be disposed of by way of counter-claim but in an indepen- dent suit, the plaintiff may, at any time before issues are settled in relation to the counter-claim, apply to the Court for an order that such counter-claim may be excluded, and the Court may, on the hearing of such application make such order as it thinks fit.
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