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1. Without prejudice to the provisions of this Code regarding applications and petitions, every suit shall be instituted by filing a statement of claim in the registry of the court.
2. Every statement of claim shall comply with the rules contained in Art, 80-93 and 222-236.
Without prejudice to the provisions of Art. 229, the registrar shall cause the particulars of every suit to be entered in a book kept for the purpose and called the register of civil suits. Such entries shall be numbered in every year according to the order in which the statements of claim are admitted.
1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Arts, 467-479, no statement of claim shall be admitted under Art. 230 except after payment of the prescribed court fee.
2. the prescribed court fee shall also be paid upon the filing of a statement of defense containing a counter-claim.
(1) Every suit shall as far as practicable be framed so as to afford ground for final decision up on the subjects in dispute and to prevent further litigation concerning them.
(2) Every suit shall include the whole of the claim which the plaintiff is entitled to make with respect to the cause of action unless he intentionally relinquishes nay portion of his claim so as to bring the suit within the jurisdiction of any court.
4. A person entitled to more than one relief with respect to the same cause of action may sue for all or any of such relief, but if he omits except with the leave of the court, to sue for all such relief, he shall not afterwards sue for any relief so omitted.
1. Unless otherwise provided, a plaintiff may unite in the same suit several causes of action against the same defendant, or the same defendants jointly.
2. Any plaintiffs having causes of action in which they are jointly interested against the same defendant or the same defendants jointly, may unite such causes of action in the same suit.
(c) claims in which the relief sought is based on the same cause of action.
No claim by or against an executor, administrator or heir as such shall be joined with claims by or against him personally unless the latter claims are alleged to arise with reference to the estate in respect of which the plaintiff off defendant sues or is sued is execution, administrator or heir, or are such as he was entitled to, or liable for, jointly with the deceased person whom he represents.
All objections on the ground of misjoinder of causes of action shall be taken at the earliest possible opportunity and, in all cases when issues are settled, at or before such settlement, unless the ground of objection has subsequently arisen, and any such objection not so taken shall be deemed to have been waived.
The court may at any time order separate trials when ever it appears that causes of action joined in one suit, whether by one or more plaintiffs, or several claims stated together in one statement of claim, or the principal claim and the counter-claim can not without delay or embarrassment be tried or disposed of together.
(i) where appropriate, a statement of the value of the subject matter of the action.
(2) In suits by or against the Government, instead of inserting the name and description and place of residence of the plaintiff or defendant, it shall be sufficient to insert the appropriate name of the administrative authority concerned.
(c) where he has no witnesses or documents to produce, a declaration to that effect.
(2) A sufficient number of copies of the statement of claim and list, documents or declaration annexed there to shall be filed for the purpose of service on all the defendants named therein.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-art. (2), any document upon which the plaintiff sues may, with the permission of the court, be deposited in the registry where it shall be open to inspection by the defendant, instead of being copied and served on the defendant.
(1) The statement of claim shall state specifically the relief f which the plaintiff claims either simply or in the alternative, and it shall not be necessary to ask for general or other relief which may always be given as the court may thin just to the same extent as if it had been asked for.
(2) Where the plaintiff seeks relief in respect of several distinct claims or causes of action founded upon separate and distinct grounds, they shall be stated as far may be separately and distinctly.
(1) Where a claim relates to a specific thing, the statement of claims shall contain such particulars as are necessary to identify such thing.
(2) Where a claim relates to immovable property, the statement of claim shall contain a description of such property sufficient to identify it and, where such property can be identified by boundaries or number in a public record, the statement of claim shall specify such boundaries or numbers.
(1) Where the plaintiff seeks the recovery of money the precise amount claimed shall be indicated in the statement of claim.
(2) Where the plaintiff sues for an amount which will be found due to him on taking unsettled accounts between him and the defendant then, for purposes of pecuniary jurisdiction only, the approximate amount claimed shall, when ever possible, be indicated in the statement of claim.
(3) Where the claim relates to a specific thing, the actual value of such thing shall be indicated inn the statement of claim.
(4) Where the claim relates to a generic ting, the current price of such thing shall be indicated in the statement of claim.
(1) Where the claim related to periodical dues payable for a specified period of time, the value of the capital producing such dues shall be indicated in the statement of claim.
(2) Where the claim relates to periodical dues payable for an unspecified period of time, then, for purposes of pecuniary jurisdiction only, the value of the annual amount of such does multiplied by twenty shall be indicated in the statement of claim.
Where the plaintiff seeks to establish, enforce or terminate a right the actual value of which cannot be indicated in accordance with the preceding Articles,then, for purposes of pecuniary jurisdiction only, statement of claim shall, when ever possible, indicate the estimated pecuniary benefit, if any, which would accrue to the plaintiff in consequence of judgment being given in his favor.
(b) it is not accompanied by the annexes provide for by Art. 233.
(c) It is not verified in the manner provided for by Art, 92.
(b) the suit appears from the particulars in the statement of claim to be outside the jurisdiction of the court.
(2) A claim for recovery shall be rejected where the plaintiff fails to produce the securities required by Art. 1403 of the Civil Code.
(3) On rejecting a statement of claim under sub-art. (1), the court shall record a reasoned order to that effect.
(b) in cases of rejection under Art. 231, refund the plaintiff with the prescribed portion of the court fee paid on filing the statement of claim and enter a note of the rejection in the register of civil suits.
(2) The rejection of a statement of claim under Art. 229 or 231 shall not of its own force preclude the plaintiff from filling a new statement of claim with respect to the same cause of action.
Where there are no reasons for rejecting a statement of claim under Art. 231, the court shall cause the statement of claim and annexes to be served on the defendant together with a summons requiring him to appear with his statement of defense on a day to be fixed in the summons and informing him that the case will be proceeded with notwithstanding that the does not appear or that he appears without his statement of defense.
(f) precise details of the counter- claim, if any, in which case the provisions of Art. 224 shall apply by analogy.
(2) The provisions of Art. 223 (3) shall apply by analogy in appropriate cases.
(1) Where in a suit for the recovery of money the defendant claims to set-off against the plaintiff’s demand any ascertained sum of money legally recoverable by him from the plaintiff, not exceeding the pecuniary limits of the jurisdiction of the court, and both parties fill the same character as they fill in the plaintiff’s suit, the defendant shall in his statement of devence give the particulars as to the debt sought to be set-off.
(2) The statement of defence shall have the same effect as a statement of claim in aross-suit so as to enable the court to give a final judgment with respect both to the original claim and to the set-off.
Where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of defense or set-off founded upon separate and distinct facts, they shall be stated, as far as may be, separately and distinctly.
(1) On the day fixed under Art. 233, the court shall examine the statement of defense and the provisions of Art. 229 shall apply by analogy in appropriate cases.
(2) Where the statement of defense is not rejected under sub-art.
(1) the court shall examine whether it contains a counter-claim of claim of set-off and the provisions of Art. 231 shall apply by analogy in appropriate cases so far as concerns such counter claim or claim of set-off.
(3) Where a statement of defense is rejected under this Article, the case shall be preceded within accordance with the provisions of the following Chapter notwithstanding such rejection.
(1) Where a statement of defense containing a counter-claim or claim of set-off is not rejected under Art. 238, the court shall ask the plaintiff to state whether he wishes to reply thereto and shall, if he so wishes, require him to submit a written reply within time as it shall fix.
(2) On the expiration of the period of time fixed under sub-art. (1), the court shall declare the pleadings closed notwithstanding that the plaintiff fails to submit his reply or that the reply is inadmissible on any of the grounds mentioned in Arts, 229 and 231 and the case shall thereupon be proceeded with in accordance with the provisions of the following Chapter.
(1) Either party may, by notice in the form prescribed by the Third Schedule to this Code, call upon the other party to produce or admit any document.
(2) Such notice shall be given not later than ten days before the hearing so as to enable the opposite party to reply thereto before the hearing or to produce the document at the hearing.

References: Art. 229
 Art. 230
 Art. 233
 Art. 1403
 Art. 231
 Art. 229
 Art. 231
 Art. 224
 Art. 223
 Art. 233
 Art. 229
 Art. 231
 Art. 238