{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:177","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Framing of Issues","number":"177","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/177/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 3. — First Hearing"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"After preliminary objections, if any, have been decided, the court shall ascertain upon what material propositions of fact or of law the parties are in dispute, and shall thereupon proceed to frame and record the issues on which the right decision of the case appears to depend.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/177/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":110,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/110/?article=177&paragraph=p1#article-177-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Nothing in sub-Article (1) shall compel the court to frame and record issues where the defendant at the first hearing of the suit makes no defense.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/177/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":111,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/111/?article=177&paragraph=p2#article-177-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}