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Section 119 CPC — Unauthorized persons not to address Court

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Official PDF page 76

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119. Unauthorized persons not to address Court. —Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to authorize any person on behalf of another to address the Court in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction, or to examine witnesses, except where the Court shall have in the exercise of the power conferred by its charter authorized him so to do, or to interfere with the power of the High Court to make rules concerning advocates, vakils and attorneys.

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