{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:169","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Examination of Statement of Defense","number":"169","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/169/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 2. — Statement of Claim and of Defense"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"On the day fixed under Article 163 the court shall examine the statement of defense and the provisions of Article 159 shall apply by analogy in appropriate cases.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/169/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":106,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/106/?article=169&paragraph=p1#article-169-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the statement of defense is not rejected, the court shall examine whether it contains a counter-claim or claim of set-off and the provisions of this Book shall apply by analogy in appropriate cases so far as concerns such counter-claim or claim of set-off.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/169/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":106,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/106/?article=169&paragraph=p2#article-169-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Where a statement of defense is not submitted or is rejected under this article, the case shall be proceeded with in accordance with the provisions of the following Chapter notwithstanding such non-submission or rejection.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/169/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":106,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/106/?article=169&paragraph=p3#article-169-p3"}]}],"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."}