{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:90","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Consolidation of Suits","number":"90","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/90/","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":"Where two or more suits or appeals are pending between the same parties in the same court, in which the same or similar questions of law or fact are involved, the court may, on its own motion or on the application of either party, order a consolidation of such proceedings on such terms as it thinks fit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/90/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/69/?article=90&paragraph=p1#article-90-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where two or more suits or appeals are pending between the same parties in different courts, in which the same or similar questions of law or fact are involved, or where two or more suits pending between the same parties in different courts are so closely connected that they cannot properly be tried separately, either party may, at any time before evidence is taken in any of such courts, apply for an order that such proceedings be consolidated.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/90/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/69/?article=90&paragraph=p2#article-90-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"An application under sub-Article (2) shall be made to the High Court, where the proceedings are pending in courts which are all subordinate thereto, or to the Supreme Court when one or more of the courts in which the proceedings are pending is a division of the High Court on circuit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/90/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/69/?article=90&paragraph=p3#article-90-p3"}]},{"id":"p4","number":"4","text":"An application under sub-Article (2) shall be made to the High Court, where the proceedings are pending in courts which are all subordinate thereto, or to the Supreme Court when one or more of the courts in which the proceedings are pending is a division of the High Court on circuit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/90/#p4","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":70,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/70/?article=90&paragraph=p4#article-90-p4"}]}],"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."}