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    Question

    Suits other than for compensation for wrongs done to

    person or immovable property shall be filed at:
    A Any place where defendant resides Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B The place where cause of action arises Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Any place where the defendant resides, carries out business or works for gain. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D b or c. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E any place where cause of action arose or both the parties reside. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    CPC  S. 20. Other suits to be instituted where defendants reside or cause of action arises.— Subject to the limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted in a Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction (a) the defendant, or each of the defendants where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain; or (b) any of the defendants, where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain, provided  that in such case either the leave of the Court is given, or the defendants who do not reside, or carry on business, or personally works for gain, as aforesaid, acquiesce in such institution; or (c) The cause of action, wholly or in part, arises.

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