The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
The law that decides how a civil suit is filed, tried, decided, executed and appealed. Every box below opens the text it names — all of it free to read, and all of it as it stands on the 10th January, 2026.
And this is the order a suit runs in
A right is denied, a contract is broken, a property is withheld. Nothing procedural has happened yet.
And these are the courts that apply it
In practice
The Code has two halves that are amended in different ways. The 172 Sections are the body of the Act and only Parliament can change them. The 724 Rules of the First Schedule have effect “as if enacted in the body of this Code” (Section 121), but Section 122 lets the High Courts make rules that annul, alter or add to them — which is why the Orders as printed here may read differently in a given State.
The Appendix is the third part: 188 forms in nine groups, from the plaint itself to the warrant of arrest in execution. The Code prints them as templates, not as provisions to be cited.
Two numbers appear twice on this page, and that is how the Code itself reads. The Commercial Courts Act, 2015 inserted a second Section 35 on costs and a second Order XI on disclosure and discovery, both of which apply only to commercial disputes before a Commercial Court or the Commercial Division of a High Court.
The Code has been amended by 53 Acts since 1908 — the largest of them the Amendment Acts of 1976, 1999 and 2002. The Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Schedules have all been repealed; only the First Schedule survives.