CPC 1908 § Appendix H, Form 8 — LETTER OF REQUEST (O. 26, r. 5)

Statutory text (English)

(Title)
(Heading:—To the President and Judges of, etc., etc., or as the case may be)
WHEREAS a suit is now pending in the in which A. B. is plaintiff and
C.D. is defendant ; And the said suit the plaintiff claims.
And whereas it has been represented to the said Court that it is necessary for the purposes of
justice and for the due determination of the matters in dispute between the parties, that the following
persons should be examined as witnesses upon oath touching such matters, that is to say:
E. F., of
G., H., of and
I. J., of
And it appearing that such witnesses are resident within the jurisdiction of your honour able
Court;
Now I, as the of the said Court, have the
honour to request, and do hereby request, that for the reasons aforesaid and for the assistance of the
said Court, you as the President and Judges of the said,or some one or
more of you, will be pleased to summon the said witness (and such other witnesses as the agents of the
said plaintiff and defendant shall humbly request you in writing so to summon) to attend at such time
and place as you shall appoint before some one or more of you or such other person as according to
the procedure of your Court is competent to take the examination of witnesses, and that you will cause
such witnesses to be examined upon the interrogatories which accompany this letter of request (or
viva voce) touching the said matters in question in the presence of the agents of the plaintiff and
defendant, or such of them as shall, on due notice given, attend such examination.
And I further have the honour to request that you will be pleased to cause the answers of the said
witnesses to be reduced into writing, and all books, letters, papers and documents produced upon such
examination to be duly marked for identification, and that you will be further pleased to authenticate such
examination by the seal of your tribunal, or in such other way as is in accordance with your procedure, and to
return the same, together with such request in writing, if any, for the examination of other witnesses to the said
Court.
(Note.— If the request is directed to a Foreign Court, the words “through 1[the 2[Federal Government]]
for transmission” should be inserted after the words “other witnesses” in the last line of this form.)

Source and verification

Source citation: CPC (Act V of 1908) First Schedule, Appendix H, Form 8 (Appendix H (MISCELLANEOUS)): Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908' (First Schedule, Appendices A-H statutory forms, pp. 185-318; printed FOURTH/FIFTH Schedule stubs omitted/repealed), p. 308, 309, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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