Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Year: 1908 · Total entries: 404

Orders

ORDER I — ORDER I
ORDER II — ORDER II
ORDER III — ORDER III
ORDER IV — ORDER IV
ORDER V — ORDER V
ORDER VI — ORDER VI
ORDER VII — ORDER VII
ORDER VIII — ORDER VIII
ORDER IX — ORDER IX
ORDER X — ORDER X
ORDER XI — ORDER XI
ORDER XII — ORDER XII
ORDER XIII — ORDER XIII
ORDER XIV — ORDER XIV
ORDER XV — ORDER XV
ORDER XVI — ORDER XVI
ORDER XVII — ORDER XVII
ORDER XVIII — ORDER XVIII
ORDER XIX — ORDER XIX
ORDER XX — ORDER XX
ORDER XXI — ORDER XXI
ORDER XXII — ORDER XXII
ORDER XXIII — ORDER XXIII
ORDER XXIV — ORDER XXIV
ORDER XXV — ORDER XXV
ORDER XXVI — ORDER XXVI
ORDER XXVII — ORDER XXVII
ORDER XXVIII — ORDER XXVIII
ORDER XXIX — ORDER XXIX
ORDER XXX — ORDER XXX
ORDER XXXI — ORDER XXXI
ORDER XXXII — ORDER XXXII
ORDER XXXIII — ORDER XXXIII
ORDER XXXIV — ORDER XXXIV
ORDER XXXV — ORDER XXXV
ORDER XXXVI — ORDER XXXVI
ORDER XXXVII — ORDER XXXVII
ORDER XXXVIII — ORDER XXXVIII
ORDER XXXIX — ORDER XXXIX
ORDER XL — ORDER XL
ORDER XLI — ORDER XLI
ORDER XLII — ORDER XLII
ORDER XLIII — ORDER XLIII
ORDER XLIV — ORDER XLIV
ORDER XLV — ORDER XLV
ORDER XLVI — ORDER XLVI
ORDER XLVII — ORDER XLVII
ORDER XLVIII — ORDER XLVIII
ORDER XLIX — ORDER XLIX
ORDER L — ORDER L
ORDER LI — ORDER LI

Sections

1. Short title
, commencement and extent...
2. Definitions
(no content)...
3. Subordination of Courts
(no content)...
4. Saving
s...
5. Application
of the Code to the Revenue Courts...
6. Pecuniary Jurisdiction
(no content)...
7. [Omitted]
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8. [Omitted]
(no content)...
9. Courts to try all civil suits unless barred
The Courts shall (subject to the provisions herein contained) have jurisdiction to try all suits of a civil nature excepting suits of which their cogn...
10. Stay of suit
No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted ...
11. Res Judicata
No Court shall try suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit...
12. Bar to further suits
Bar to further suit.__ (1)...
13. When foreign judgment not conclusive
A foreign judgment shall be conclusive as to any matter thereby directly adjudicated upon between the same parties or between parties under whom they ...
14. Presumption as to foreign judgment
The Court shall presume, upon the production of any document purporting to be a certified copy of a foreign Judgment, that such Judgment was pronounce...
15. Court in which suits to be instituted
Every suit shall be instituted in the Court of the lowest grade competent to try it....
16. Suits to be instituted where subject-matter situate
Subject to the pecuniary or other limitations prescribed by any law, suits__ (a) for the recovery of immoveable property with or without rent or profi...
17. Suits for immoveable property situate within
jurisdiction of different Courts. Where a suit is to obtain relief respecting, or compensation for wrong to, immoveable property situate with in the j...
18. Place of institution of suit where
local limits of jurisdiction, of Courts are uncertain.__ (1) Where it is alleged to be uncertain within the local limits of the jurisdiction of which ...
19. Suits for compensation for wrongs to person or moveables
Where a suit is for compensation for wrong done to the person or to moveable property, if the wrong was done within the local limits of the Jurisdicti...
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 o...
21. Objections to jurisdiction
No objection as to the place of suing shall be allowed by any appellate or revisional Court unless such objection was taken in the Court of first inst...
22. Power to transfer suits which may
be instituted in more than one Court. Where a suit may be instituted in any one of two or more Courts and is instituted in one of such Courts, any def...
23. To what Court application lies
(1) Where the several Courts having jurisdiction are subordinate to the same Appellate Court, an application under section 22 shall be made to the App...
24. General power of transfer and with drawl
(1) On the application of any of the parties and after notice to the parties and after hearing such of them as desire to be heard, or of its own motio...
24A. Appearance of parties on transfer of
suit, etc...
25. [Power of Provincial Government to transfer
suits.] Omitted by the Central Laws (Statue Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (XXI of 1960), s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955). INSTITU...
26. Institution of suit Summons And Discovery
(no content)...
27. Summons to defendants
Where a suit has been duly instituted, a summons may be issued to the defendant to appear and answer the claim and may be served in manner prescribed....
28. Service of summons where defendant resides
in another Province.__ (1) A Summons may be sent for service in another Province to such Court and in such manner as may be prescribed by rules in for...
29. Service of foreign summonses
Service of foreign summonses. Summonses 2[and other processes...
30. Power to order discovery and the like
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the Court may, at any time, either of its own motion or on the application of any par...
31. Summons to witness
The provisions in sections 27, 28 and 29 shall apply to summonses to give evidence or to produce documents or other material objects....
32. Penalty for default
The Court may compel the attendance of any person to whom a summons has been issued under section 30 and for that purpose may___ (a) issue a warrant f...
33. Judgment and decree
The Court, after the case has been heard, shall pronounce judgment, and on such judgment a decree shall follow. 1 Subs. by the Adaptation of Central A...
34. Interest
(1) Where and in so far as a decree is for the payment of money, the Court may, in the decree, order interest at such rate as the Court deems reasonab...
34A. ]. COSTS 1[35. Costs
1) Subject to such conditions and limitations, as may be prescribed, and to the provisions of any law for the time being in force,__ (i) a part...
35. (no title)
Costs...
35A. Adjournment costs
If, on the date fixed for hearing in any proceedings, a party to the proceedings or any other person, despite service of notice, fails to appear or co...
35B. Special costs
(1) If in any proceedings, the Court finds that any averment made by any party is false or vexatious to the knowledge of such party, the Court shall a...
35C. General provisions as to costs
The Government shall not be liable to costs under section 35, 35A and 35B. Explanation.__ In sections 35, 35A and 35B, the expression “proceedings” in...
36. Application
to orders. The provisions of this Code relating to the execution of decrees shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to the execution ...
37. Definition of Court which passed a decree
The expression “Court which passed a decree,” or words to that effect, shall, in relation to the execution of decrees, unless there is anything repugn...
38. Court by which decree may be executed
A decree may be executed either by the Court which passed it, or by the Court to which it is sent for execution....
39. Transfer of decree
(1) The Court which passed a decree may, on the application of the decree-holder, send it for execution to another Court,__ (a) if the person agai...
40. Transfer of decree to Court in another Province
Where a decree is sent for execution in another Province, it shall be sent to such Court and executed in such manner as may be prescribed by rules in ...
41. Results of execution proceeding to be certified
The Court to which a decree is sent for execution shall certify to the Court which passed it the fact of such execution, or where the former Court fai...
42. Powers of Court in executing transferred
decree...
43. Execution of decrees passed by British
Courts in places to which this Part does not extend or in foreign territory. Any decree passed by a Civil Court established in any to which the provis...
44. [Omitted] 44A Execution of decrees passed
sed by Courts in the United Kingdom and other reciprocating territory...
45. 1[Omitted]
(no content)...
46. Precepts
(1) Upon the application of the decree-holder the Court which passed the decree may, whenever it thinks fit, issue a precept to any other Court which ...
47. Questions to be determined by the Court executing decree
__ (1) All questions arising between the parties to the suit in which the decree was passed, or their representatives, and relating to the execution, ...
48. Execution barred in certain cases Transferees
And Legal Representatives...
49. Transferee
Every transferee of a decree shall hold the same subject to the equities (if any) which the Judgment-debtor might have enforced against the original d...
50. Legal representative
(1) Where a judgment-debtor dies before the decree has been fully satisfied, the holder of the decree may apply to the Court which passed it to execut...
51. Powers of Court to enforce execution
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the Court may, on the application of the decree-holder, order execution of the decree...
52. Enforcement of decree against legal representative
(1) Where a decree is passed against a party as the legal representative of a deceased person, and the decree is for the payment of money out of the p...
53. Liability of ancestral property
For the purposes of section 50 and section 52, property in the hands of a son or other descendant which is liable under Hindu law for the payment of t...
54. Partition of estate of seperation of share
Where the decree is for the partition of an undivided estate assessed to the payment of revenue to , or for the separate possession of a share of such...
55. Arrest and detention
(1) A judgment-debtor may be arrested in execution of a decree at any hour and on any day, and shall, as soon as practicable, be brought before the Co...
56. Prohibition of arrest or detention of
women in execution of decree for money. Notwithstanding anything in this Part, the Court shall not order the arrest or detention in the 2[*] prison of...
57. [Omitted]
(no content)...
58. Release from detention
Release from detention.__ Every person detained in prison in execution of a decree shall be released from such detention, before the expiry of the per...
59. [Omitted] Attachment
(no content)...
60. Property liable to attachment and sale
in execution of decree.__ (1) The following property is liable to attachment and sale in execution of a decree, namely, lands, houses or other buildin...
61. Partial exemption of agricultural produce
The 2* * * may, by general or special order published in the to be necessary for the purpose of providing until the next harvest for the due cultivati...
62. Seizure of property in dwelling-house
(1) No person executing any process under this Code directing or authorizing seizure of moveable property shall enter any dwelling-house after sunset ...
63. Property attached in execution of decrees of several Courts
(1) Where property not in the custody of any Court is under attachment in execution of decrees of more Courts than one, of the Court which shall recei...
64. Private alienation of property after attachment to be void
Where an attachment has been made, any private transfer or delivery of the property attached or of any interest therein and any payment to the judgmen...
65. Purchaser's title. Where immoveable property is
sold in execution of a decree and such sale has become absolute, the property shall be deemed to have vested in the purchaser from the time when the p...
66. Suit against purchaser not maintainable on
ground of purchase being on behalf of plaintiff.__ (1) No suit shall be maintained against any person claiming title under a purchase certified by the...
67. Power for Provincial Government to make
rules as to sales of land in execution of decrees for payment of money Delegation To Collector of Power to Execute Decrees Against Immoveable Property...
68. Power to prescribe rules for transferring
to Collector execution of certain decrees. The [Provincial Government] may, , declare, by notification in the , that in 2 any local area the execution...
69. Provisions of Third Schedule to apply
The provisions set forth in the Third Schedule shall apply to all cases in which the execution of a decree has been transferred under the last precedi...
70. Rules of procedure
(1) The may make rules consistent with the aforesaid provisions__ (a) for the transmission of the decree from the Court to the Collector, and for regu...
71. Collector deemed to be acting judicially
In executing a decree transferred to the Collector under section 68 the Collector and his subordinates shall be deemed to be acting judicially....
72. Where Court may authroise Collector to
stay public sale of land.__ (1) Where in any local area in which no declaration under section 68 is in force the property attached consists of land or...
73. Proceeds of execution sale to be
rateably distributed among decree-holders.__ (1) Where assets are held by a Court and more persons than one have, before the receipt of such assets, m...
74. Resistance to execution
(no content)...
75. Power of Court to issue commissions
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the Court may issue a commission__ (a) to examine any person ; (b) to make a local in...
75A. [Omitted]
* * * * * * *...
76. Commission to another Court
__ (1) A commission for the examination of any person may be issued to any Court (not being a High Court) situate in a Province other than the Provinc...
77. Letter of request
In lieu of issuing a commission the Court may issue a of letter of request to examine a witness residing at any place not within ....
78. Commissions issued by foreign Courts
the provisions as to the execution and return of commissions for the examination of witnesses shall apply to commissions issued by __ (a) Courts situa...
79. Suits by or against the Government
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80. Notice
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81. Exemption from arrest and personal appearance
In a suit instituted against a public officer in respect of any act purporting to be done by him in his official capacity__ (a) the defendant s...
82. Execution of decree
__ (1) Where the decree is against or against a public officer in respect of any such act as aforesaid, a time shall be specified in the decree within...
83. When aliens may sue
(1) Alien enemies residing with the permission of the , and alien friends, may sue in the Courts , as if they were . (2) No alien enemy residing witho...
84. When foreign States may sue
(1) A foreign State may sue in any Court : Provided that such State has been recognized by the : Provided, also, that the object of the suit is to enf...
85. Persons specially appointed by Government to
prosecute or defend for Ruler of foreign State.__ at the request of the Ruler of any foreign State, or at the request of any person competent, in the ...
86. [Suits against Rulers.] Repealed by the
State Immunity Ordinance, 1981 (VI of 1981), s.19....
86A. Suits against diplomatic agents
(1) No proceeding in any Court shall lie against a diplomatic agent except in a case relating to__ 1 Ins. by the code of Civil Procedure (Amdt.) Act, ...
87. [Style of Rulers as Parties to
suits.] Repealed by the State Immunity Ordinance, 1981 (VI of 1981), s. 19. 2 [* * *]...
87A. [Omitted] Interpleader
(no content)...
88. Where inter pleader suit may be instituted
Where two or more persons claim adversely to one another the same debt, sum of money or other property, moveable or immoveable, from another person, w...
89. [Arbitration.] Omitted by the Arbitration Act,
1940 (X of 1940), s. 49 and Third Schedule. . SPECIAL CASE...
89A. Alternate dispute resolution Special Case
Alternate dispute resolution.__ The Court may, where it considers necessary, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, with the object...
90. Power to state case for opinion of Court
Where any persons agree in writing to state a case for the opinion of the Court, then the Court shall try and determine the same in the manner prescri...
91. Public nuisances
(1) In the case of a public nuisance the Advocate General, or two or more persons having , may institute a suit, though no special damage has been cau...
92. Public charities
(1) In the case of any alleged breach of any express or constructive trust created for public purposes of a charitable or religious nature, or where t...
93. Exercise of powers of Advocate General
The powers conferred by sections 91 and 92 on the Advocate General may, , be, with the previous sanction of the , exercised also by the Collector or b...
94. Supplemental Proceedings
In order to prevent the ends of justice from being defeated the Court may, if it is so prescribed,__ (a) issue a warrant to arrest the defendan...
95. Compensation, for obtaining arrest, attachment or
injunction on in sufficient grounds.__ (1) Where, in any suit in which an arrest or attachment has been effected or a temporary injunction granted und...
96. Appeal from original decree
(no content)...
97. Appeal from final decree where no
appeal from preliminary decree. Where any party aggrieved by a preliminary decree passed after the commencement of this Code does not appeal from such...
98. Decision where appeal heard by two or more Judges
(l) where an appeal is heard by a Bench of two or more Judges, the appeal shall be decided in accordance with the opinion of such Judges or of the maj...
99. No decree to be reversed or
modified for error or irregularity not affecting merits or jurisdiction. No decree shall be reversed or substantially varied, nor shall any case be re...
100. Second appeal
(no content)...
101. Second appeal on no other grounds
No second appeal shall lie except on the grounds mentioned in section 100....
102. No second appeal in certain cases
No second appeal shall lie in any suit except when the amount or value of the subject matter of the original suit does not exceed the amount or value ...
103. Power of High Court to determine issues of fact
In any second appeal, the High Court may, if the evidence on the record is sufficient, determine any issue of fact necessary for disposal of the appea...
104. Orders from which appeal lies
(1) An appeal shall lie from the following orders, and save as otherwise expressly provided in the body of this Code or by any law for the time being ...
105. Other orders
(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided, no appeal shall lie from any order made by a Court in the exercise of its original or appellate jurisdiction...
106. What Courts to hear appeals General
Provisions Relating to Appeals...
107. Powers of Appellate Court
(1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, an Appellate Court shall have power__ (a) to determine a case finally; (b)...
108. Procedure in appeals from appellate decrees and orders
The provisions of this Part relating to appeals from original decrees shall, so far as may be, apply to appeals__ (a) from appellate decrees, and (b) ...
109. When appeals, lie to the Supreme
Court...
110. [Omitted]
(no content)...
111. Bar of certain appeals
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 109, no appeal shall 5 lie to [the Supreme Court]: (a) from the decree or order of one Judge of a High C...
111A. [Omitted]
(no content)...
112. Saving
s.__ ; or (b) to interfere with any rules made by the Supreme Court, and for the time being in force, for the presentation of appeals to that Court, o...
113. Reference to High Court
Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, any Court may state a case and refer the same for the opinion of the High Court, and ...
114. Review
(no content)...
115. Revision
(no content)...
116. Part to apply only to certain High Courts
This Part applies only to High Courts...
117. Application
of Code to High Courts. Save as provided in this Part or in Part X or in rules, the provisions of this Code shall apply to 1[*] High Courts....
118. Execution of decree before ascertainment of costs
Where any 3* High Court considers it necessary that a decree passed in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction should be executed before the a...
119. Unauthorised persons not to address Courts
Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to authorise any person on behalf of another to address the Court in the exercise of its original civil jurisdict...
120. Provisions not applicable to High Court
in original civil jurisdiction.__ (1) The following provisions shall not apply to the High Court in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction, n...
121. Effect of rules in First Schedule
The rules in the First Schedule shall have effect as if enacted in the body of this Code until annulled or altered in accordance with the provisions o...
122. Power of certain High Courts to make rules
] may, from time to time after previous publication, make rules regulating their own procedure and the procedure of the Civil Courts subject to their ...
123. Constitution of Rules Committees in certain Provinces
(1) A Committee, to be called the Rule Committee, shall be constituted at referred to in section 122]. (2) Each such Committee shall consist of the fo...
124. Committee to report to High Court
Every Rule Committee shall make a report to the High Court established at the town at which it is constituted on any proposal to annul, alter or add t...
125. [Omitted]. 1 Subs. by the Amending
Act No. XIII 1916, s. 2 and Sch. 2 Ins. by Act No. XXXII of 1925, s. 2 and Sch., were omitted by Adaptation Order, 1949. 3 Omitted by Act No. XI of 19...
126. Rules to be subject to approval
Rules to be subject to approval. Rules made under the foregoing provisions shall be subject to the previous approval of the Government of the Province...
127. Publication of rules
Rules so made and shall be published in the , and shall from the date of publication or from such other date as may be specified have the same force a...
128. Matters for which rules may provide
(1) Such rules shall be not inconsistent with the provisions in the body of this Code, but, subject thereto, may provide for any matters relating to t...
129. Power of 2[*] the High Courts
to make rules as to their original civil procedure. Notwithstanding anything in this Code, any High Court may make such rules not inconsistent with to...
130. [Omitted]
(no content)...
131. Publication of rules
Rules made in accordance with section 129 shall be published in the and shall from the date of publication or from such other date as may be specified...
132. Exemption of certain women from personal appearance
(1) Women who, according to the customs and manners of the country7 ought not to be compelled to appear in public shall be exempt from personal appear...
133. Exemption of other persons
(1) The may, by notification2 in the , exempt from personal appearance in Court any person whose rank, in the opinion of such Government, entitles him...
134. Arrest other than in execution of decree
The provisions of sections 55, 57 and 59 shall apply, so far as may be, to all persons arrested under this Code....
135. Exemption from arrest under civil process
(1) No Judge, Magistrate or other judicial officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning from, his ...
135A. Exemption of members of Legislative bodies
from arrest and detention under civil process...
136. Procedure where person to be arrested
or property to be attached is outside district.__ (1) Where an application is made that any person shall be arrested or that property shall be attache...
137. Language of subordinate Courts
(1) The language which, on the commencement of this Code, is the language of any Court subordinate to a High Court shall continue to be the language o...
138. Power of High Court to require
evidence to be recorded in English.__ (1) The may, by notification in the , direct with respect to any Judge specified in the notification, or failing...
139. Oath on affidavit by whom to be administered
In the case of any affidavit under this Code__ (a) any Court or Magistrate, or (b) any officer or other person whom a High Court may appoint in this b...
140. Assessors in causes of savages, etc
(1) In any Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty cause of salvage, towage or collision, the Court, whether it be exercising its original or its appellate jurisd...
141. Miscellaneous proceedings
Miscellaneous proceedings.__ The procedure provided in this Code with regard to suits shall be followed, as far as it can be made applicable, in all p...
142. Orders and notices to be in writing
All orders and notices served on or given to any person under the provisions of this Code shall be in writing....
143. Postage
Postage, where chargeable on a notice, summons or letter issued under this Code and forwarded by post, and the fee for registering the same, shall be ...
144. Application
for restitution.__ (1) Where and in so far as a decree is varied or reversed, the Court of first instance shall, on the application of any party entit...
145. Enforcement of liability of surety
Where any person has become liable as surety__ (a) for the performance of any decree or any part thereof, or (b) for the restitution o...
146. Proceedings by or against representatives
Save as otherwise provided by this Code or by any law for the time being in force, where any proceeding may be taken or application made by or against...
147. Consent or agreement by person under disability
In all suits to which any person under disability is a party, any consent or agreement, as to any proceeding shall, if given or made with the express ...
148. Enlargement of time
Where any period is fixed or granted by the Court for the doing of any act prescribed or allowed by this Code, the Court may, in its discretion, from ...
149. Power to make up deficiency of court-fees
Where the whole or any part of any fee prescribed for any document by the law for the time being in force relating to court-fees has not been paid, th...
150. Transfer of business
Save as otherwise provided, where the business of any Court is transferred to any other Court, the Court to which the business is so transferred shall...
151. Saving
of inherent powers of Court. Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to limit or otherwise affect the inherent power of the Court to make 1 Ins. by Act N...
152. Amendment of judgments, decrees or orders
Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in judgments, decrees or orders or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission may at any time be co...
153. General power to amend
The Court may at any time, and on such terms as to costs or otherwise as it may think fit, amend any defect or error in any proceeding in a suit; and ...
154. 1[Omitted]
(no content)...
155. 2[Omitted]
(no content)...
156. 3[Repeals.]
(no content)...
157. Continuance of orders under repealed enactments
Notifications published, declarations and rules made, places appointed, agreements filed, scales prescribed, forms framed, appointments made and power...
158. Reference to Code of Civil Procedure
and other repealed enactments. In every enactment or notification passed or issued before the commencement of this Code in which reference is made to ...
159. [Release on ground of illness.] Omitted
by the Code of Civil Procedure (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1980 (X of 1980), s. 9. ATTACHMENT...
644. [Omitted] 1 S. 42 renumbered as sub-section
of that section by the Code of civil Procedure (Amdt.) Ordinance, No. XLIV of 1962, s. 10. 2 Sub-section (2) added ibid. 3 Amended by Adaptation Order...
248. Execution barred in certain cases
(1) Where an application to execute a decree not being a decree granting an injunction has been made, no order for the execution of the same decree sh...
5Subs. by A.O., 1949. 6The words “His
majesty or by” omitted by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch. (with effect from the 23rd March, 1956)....
7Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art.2 and Table
(no content)...
8Subs. and shall be deemed to have
been so subs. on the 14th day of October, 1955, by the Code of Civil Procedure (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1960 (22 of 1960), s.3, for the existing sub-section...
387A. [Application of sections 85 and 86
to Rulers of Acceding States, etc.] Omitted by the Code of Civil Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1972 (II of 1972), s.2. INTERPLEADER...
5130. [Omitted]
(no content)...

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