CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
739
in court.
3.
154. If the whole of the money in court is not taken out under section 153, the money remaining in court shall not be paid out except in satisfaction of the claim or specified cause or causes of action in respect of which it was paid in and in pursuance of an order of the court, which may be made at any time before, at or after trial.
App
*
defendants. O. 22, r. 4.
155. (1) Money may be paid into court under section 152 by one or more of several defendants sued jointly or in the alternative, upon notice to the other defendant or defendants.
*
(2) If the plaintiff elects within seven days after receipt of notice of payment into court to accept the sum or sums paid into court, he shall give notice as in Form No. 166 in the Schedule to each defendant.
(3) Thereupon all further proceedings in the action or in respect of the specified cause or causes of action (as the case may be) shall be stayed, and the money shall not be paid out except in pursuance of an order of the court dealing with the whole costs of the action or cause or causes of action (as the case may be).
Form No. 160.
156. A plaintiff or other person made defendant to a counter-claim may pay money into court in accordance with sections 152 to 155, with the necessary modifications.
*
*
Ordinance No. 1 of 1887.
157. Except in an action to which a defence of tender before action is pleaded or in which a plea under the Defamation and Libel Ordinance, 1887, has been filed, no statement of the fact that money has been paid into court under sections 152 to 155 shall be inserted in the pleadings and no communication of that fact shall at the trial of any action be made to the court or jury until all questions of liability and amount of debt or damages have been decided, but the court shall, in exercising its discretion as to costs, take into account both the fact that money has been paid into court and the amount of such payment.
under order.
158. Money paid into court under an order of the court shall not be paid out of court except in pursuance of an order of the court: Provided that, where before the delivery of defence money has been paid into court by the defendant
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
*
Page 45