Case Law Analysis
|Madras High Court
Order VII Rule 11 CPC | Plaint Must Be Numbered Before Maintainability Hearing; Jurisdictional Bar No Ground to Return Unnumbered Plaint : Madras HC
The Madras HC set aside a trial court order returning an unnumbered plaint in an adverse possession suit against a TN Land Encroachment Act notice, holding courts must first number the plaint and hear the plaintiff on maintainability under Order VII Rule 11 CPC - a jurisdictional bar cannot justify bypassing this mandatory procedure.