The Code Of Civil Procedure 1908
Order XX :
Rule 3 :
1.[Judgment to be signed :
The judgment shall be dated and signed by the Judge in open Court at the time of pronouncing it and, when once signed, shall not afterwards be altered or added, to save as provided by section 152 or on review.
State Amendment :
High Court Amendments-[Andhra Pradesh] :
Same as that of Madras.
[Gujarat] :
In Order 20, rule 3, for full stop, appearing at the end of the rule, substitute a colon and add the following:-"Provided that where the judgment is pronounced by dictation to a shorthand writer in open Court, the transcript of the judgment so pronounced shall after making such corrections therein as may be necessary be signed by the Judge and shall bear the date of its pronouncement, and when the judgment is once so signed by the Judge it shall not afterwards be altered or added to save as provided by section 152 or on review."-(16-3-1972).
[Kamataka] :
Delete rule 3 and substitute the following:-"3. The judgment shall bear the date on which it is pronounced and shall be signed by the Judge and when once signed shall not afterwards be altered or added to, save as provided by section 152 of the Code or upon review, provided also that where the Judge pronounces his judgment by dictation to a shorthand writer in open Court, the transcript of the judgment so pronounced shall, after such revision as may be deemed necessary, be signed by the Judge."-(R.O.C. No. 2526/ 1959, dated 9-2-1967).
[Kerala] :
Same as that of Madras except that for the words "provided also that, where the Judge pronounces his judgment by dictation," the words "provided that where the judgment is pronounced by dictation" are substituted.-(9-6-1959).
[Madras] :
For rule 3, substitute the following:-"3. Judgment to be signed, transcript of shorthand.-The judgment shall bear the date on which it is pronounced and shall be signed by the Judge and when once signed shall not afterwards be altered or added to, save asprovided by section 152 or on review: provided also that where the Presiding Judge is specifically empowered by the High Court to pronounce his judgment by dictation to a shorthand writer in open Court, the transcript of the judgment so pronounced shall, after such revision as may be deemed necessary, be signed by the judge."
[Rajasthan] :
In Order XX, the existing rule 3 shall be renumbered as sub-rule (1) of that rule, and after sub-rule (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-rules shall be inserted:--
"(2) Where the judgment is pronounced by dictation to a shorthand writer in open Court, the transcript of the judgment so pronounced shall, after such revision as may be deemed necessary, be signed by the judge and shall bear the date of its pronouncement.
(3) In cases where judgment is not written by the Judge in his own hand, and dictated and taken down verbatim by another person, each page of the judgment shall be initialled by the Judge."-(Notification dated 23-12-1964).
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1. The provisions of rules 1, 3, 4 and 5 are not applicable to the Chief Court of Oudh, see the Oudh Courts Act, 1925 (U. P. Act 4 of 1925), section 16 (2).
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