SCOPE AND LIMITS OF A CIVIL SUIT

A CIVIL SUIT

Civil Law represents an individual’s private right of action for redress. A civil suit (also referred
as “civil proceeding‟ or just ‘suit’) is a process for recovery of an individual right or redress of
an individual wrong. A Civil is suit is an

The essential requirements of any civil suit, according to the decision of the Bombay High Court
in Krishnappa v. Shivappa1 are the opposing parties, the subject matter in dispute, the cause of
action and the relief claimed by the plaintiff. For the purposes of the paper, we shall be
concerned only with the opposing parties.

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(1907) 5 Cal. L. J. 564