Multiple choice

Legal representative under Section 2(11) of the CPC means a person is

  1. a relative of parties to the suit

  2. a co-sharer of the benefits assuming to the parties to the suit

  3. who in law represents the estate of the deceased

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these
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Explanation

Option (3) is correct: Under Section 2(11) of the CPC, a ‘legal representative' means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased, and where a party sues or is sued in a representative character, the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so suing or sued.

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