{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:109","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Subsequent Appearance of Defendant","number":"109","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/109/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK II — CIVIL PROCEDURE IN GENERAL","title":"TITLE II — PARTIES","chapter":"Chapter 5. — Appearance of Parties, Failure to Appear, Judgment by Default and Opposition"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where the court has adjourned the hearing of the suit ex parte, and the defendant at or before such hearing, appears and shows good cause for his previous non-appearance, he may, upon such terms as to costs or otherwise as the court may direct, be heard in answer to the suit as if he had appeared on the day fixed for his appearance.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/109/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":77,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/77/?article=109&paragraph=lead#article-109-lead"}]}],"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."}