Judicial Dictionary
Title | Pauper Suit |
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Pauper refers to a person without any property/ a poor fellow, within the
prescribed standard of the law of a particular country. In the legal
proceeding, between two parties one may claim before the court that he /
she is a Pauper, that he / she has no means to pay the court fees and that
the suit may admitted without payment of court fee. In other words, in a
pauper suit an impoverished person is supported at public expense; an
indigent litigant is permitted to sue or defend without paying costs; an
impoverished criminal defendant has a right to receive legal services
without charge. A person is a “pauper” when he is not possessed of
sufficient means to enable him to pay the fee prescribed by law for the
plaint in such suit, or, where no such fee is prescribed, when he is not
entitled to property worth ………. Other than his necessary wearing
apparel and the subject-matter of the suit. ….. [Ord. XXXIII r.1,
explanation to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908]
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