{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:246","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Matters to which Affidavits Shall be Confined","number":"246","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/246/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE III — EVIDENCE","chapter":"Chapter 7. — Affidavits"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Affidavits shall be confined to such facts within the personal knowledge of the deponent, except on interlocutory applications, on which statement of his belief may be admitted if the grounds thereof are stated.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/246/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":139,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/139/?article=246&paragraph=p1#article-246-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The relief asked for on the grounds mentioned in the affidavit shall be stated in an application to which such affidavit shall be attached.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/246/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":139,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/139/?article=246&paragraph=p2#article-246-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."}