{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:88","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Misjoinder and Non-joinder","number":"88","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/88/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK II — CIVIL PROCEDURE IN GENERAL","title":"TITLE II — PARTIES","chapter":"Chapter 3. — Multiplicity of Parties and Claims"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"No suit shall be defeated by reason only of the misjoinder or non-joinder of parties, and the court may in every suit deal with the matter in dispute so far as regards the rights and interests of the parties actually before it.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/88/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":68,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/68/?article=88&paragraph=p1#article-88-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Any objection on the ground of misjoinder or non-joinder of parties shall be raised at the earliest possible opportunity and, in all cases in which issues are settled, at or before such settlement, unless the ground of objection arises thereafter. Any objection not so raised shall be deemed to have been waived.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/88/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":68,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/68/?article=88&paragraph=p2#article-88-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."}