CPC Section 87: Style of foreign Rulers as parties to suits
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part 4: Suits in Particular Cases
87. Style of foreign Rulers as parties to suits.—The Ruler of a foreign State may sue, and shall be sued, in the name of his State:
Provided that in giving the consent referred to in section 86, the Central Government may direct that the Ruler may be sued in the name of an agent or in any other name.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 79. Suits by or against Government
- 80. Notice
- 81. Exemption from arrest and personal appearance
- 82. Execution of decree
- 83. When aliens may sue
- 84. When foreign States may sue
- 85. Persons specially appointed by Government to prosecute or defend on behalf of foreign Rulers
- 86. Suits against foreign Rulers, Ambassadors and Envoys
- 87A. Definitions of “foreign State” and “Ruler”
- 87B. Application of sections 85 and 86 to Rulers of former Indian States
- 88. Where interpleader-suit may be instituted