19. Section 79 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
| 79. Except in the case of a claim by a defendant in reconvention no pleading after answer shall be filed except by order of court on special motion to be made alter due notice to the other side, and before the day appointed for the hearing of' the action upon such terms as to costs and the postponement of the hearing .of the action as the court shall think it such order shall not be made (except in the case of a claim in reconvention on the part of the defendant) unless the court is satisfied on such motion that the real issues between the parties cannot be conveniently raised without such further pleading. All pleadings after answer shall be subject to the rules prescribed by section 75 relative to the form and substance of the answer, so far as the same can be made' applicable, and copies of such pleadings shall be served on the opposite party or his registered attorney". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts