📘 Law Relating to Summary Suits | 2nd Edition (2022)
✒️ Authored by: Justice P.S. Narayana | Language: English | Publisher: Asia Law House

This specialized legal treatise provides a detailed and practical analysis of summary suit proceedings under Order XXXVII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC). Written by a distinguished jurist, it serves as an essential reference for litigators, judicial officers, and students seeking clarity on the fast-track civil litigation mechanism designed for claims based on negotiable instruments, written contracts, and other specified debts.

🔍 Key Features:

• 📜 Comprehensive Commentary on Order XXXVII CPC, covering scope, object, and procedural framework of summary suits.

• ⚖️ Judicial Analysis – exhaustive reference to landmark Supreme Court and High Court decisions interpreting summary suit provisions.

• ⏱️ Expedited Procedure – insights on filing, service of summons, leave to defend, and decree process.

• 💼 Practical Drafting Guidance – specimen plaints, applications, affidavits, and reply formats tailored to summary proceedings.

• 📚 Negotiable Instruments Focus – treatment of suits based on bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques.

• 🛠️ Strategic Insights – tips on effectively invoking summary procedure, resisting leave to defend, and execution of decrees.

• 🆕 Updated Content reflecting latest case law, procedural amendments, and evolving judicial trends since the first edition.

🎯 Recommended For:

• Civil litigators and commercial lawyers

• Judicial officers and court staff handling summary suits

• Banking, finance, and corporate legal departments

• Law students specializing in procedural and commercial law

This second edition blends doctrinal depth with hands-on guidance, making it a must-have resource for mastering the principles and practice of summary suits in Indian civil procedure.