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CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
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190. If any party to a cause or matter is a body corporate or a joint stock company, whether incorporated or not, or any other body of persons empowered by law to sue or be sued, whether in its own name or in the name of any officer or other person, any opposite party may apply to the Court for an order allowing him to deliver interrogatories to any member or officer of such corporation, company, or body, and an order may be made accordingly.
O. 31 r. 5.
191.(1.) Any interrogatories may be set aside on the ground that they have been exhibited unreasonably or vexatiously, or struck out on the ground that they are prolix, oppressive, unnecessary, or scandalous.
Ib. r. 7.
(2.) Any application for this purpose may be made within seven days after service of the interrogatories.
192. Interrogatories shall be answered by affidavit to be filed within ten days or within such other time as the Court may allow.
193. Any objection to answering any one or more of several interrogatories on the ground that it or they is or are scandalous or irrelevant or not bona fide for the purpose of the cause or matter, or that the matters inquired into are not sufficiently material at that stage, or on any other ground, may be taken in the affidavit in answer.
194. No exception shall be taken to any affidavit in answer to interrogatories, but the sufficiency or otherwise of any such affidavit objected to as insufficient shall be determined by the Court on summons.
Schedule: Form No. 21. Objections to interrogatories by answer.
Ib. r. 6.
Objection to affidavit in answer.
Ib. r. 10.
Order to answer.
Ib. r. 11.
195. If any person interrogated omits to answer or answers insufficiently, the party interrogating may apply to the Court for an order requiring him to answer or to answer further, as the case may be, and an order may be made requiring him to answer or answer further, either by affidavit or by viva voce examination, as the Court may direct.
196.—(1) Any party may, without filing any affidavit, apply to the Court for an order directing any other party to any cause or matter to make discovery upon oath of the documents which are or have been in his possession or power, relating to any matter in question therein.
(2.) On the hearing of such application, the Court may either refuse or adjourn the same, if satisfied that such discovery is not necessary or not necessary at that stage of the cause or matter, or make such order, either generally or limited to certain classes of documents, as may, in its discretion, be thought fit: Provided that discovery shall not be ordered when and so far as the Court is of opinion that it is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the cause or matter or for saving costs.
Application for discovery of documents.
Ib. r. 12.
(3.) The affidavit to be made by the party against whom such order is made shall be in Form No. 22.
Ib. r. 13.
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