{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:180","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Court May Examine Witnesses or Document before Framing Issues","number":"180","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/180/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 3. — First Hearing"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where the court considers that the issues cannot be correctly framed without the examination of some person not before the court or without the inspection of some document that the court deems relevant, it may adjourn the framing of the issues to a future day, and may compel the attendance of any person or the production of any document by the person in whose possession or power it is by summons or other process.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/180/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":112,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/112/?article=180&paragraph=lead#article-180-lead"}]}],"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."}