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Amendment of Pleadings | Order VI Rule 17 [CPC]: A Critical Analysis

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The history of common law suggests that the process making amendments to pleadings was very rigid such that even the changes to minor details were not entertained by the Court of Law. [4]. However with the case Cropper v. Smith the importance of amending pleadings in conducting a fair trial was realised. Manohar Singh , that.