RESET | Laws | Civil Proceedings |
+ | I. GENERAL RULES | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Computation of Time | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Enlargement of Time | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Suits Commenced on Sunday | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Withdrawal of Attorney | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Agreements Must be Written | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Effect of Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers | (Text) | - |
+ | II. RULES OF PRACTICE | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Writs and Process | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. In General | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. All Process Must be Endorsed | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Officer to Execute Process | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Recusal or Disqualification of Judges | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Motion Must be Made | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Motion and Notice to Other Parties | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Recusal by the Judge | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Refusal to Recuse | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Review of Decision on Motion | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Authority of Chief Justice | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Recusal Sought to Delay Case | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Grounds for Disqualification and Recusal | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Filing and Serving Pleadings and Motions | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Methods of Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Types of Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Additional Time | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Who May Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Proof of Non-Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Privacy Protection for Filed Documents | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Sanctions for Failure to Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Institution of Suit | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Commenced by Petition | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Suits Should be Numbered Consecutively | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Duty of Clerk | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Clerk's File Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Clerk's Court Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Order of Cases | (Text) | - |
+ | III. PLEADING | (Text) | - |
+ | A. General | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Requirements for Pleadings | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Claims for Relief | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Adoption by Reference | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Exhibits and Pleadings | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Method of Inclusion | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Intervenor's Pleadings | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Averments | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Amendments | (Text) | - |
+ | 9. Filing | (Text) | - |
+ | 10. Surprise Pleadings and Supplements | (Text) | - |
+ | 11. Misnomer of Pleadings | (Text) | - |
+ | 12. Inspection of Papers by Attorneys | (Text) | - |
+ | 13. Sealing Court Records | (Text) | - |
+ | 14. Lost Papers and Records | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Pleadings of Plaintiff | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Petition | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Defensive Matters | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Special Defenses | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Pleadings of Defendant | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Answer | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Waiver of Defects in Pleading | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Special Exceptions | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. General Denial | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Certain Pleas to be Verified | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Affirmative Defenses | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Insurance Suits | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Pleas of Payment | (Text) | - |
+ | 9. No Discontinuance | (Text) | - |
+ | 10. Counterclaim and Cross-Claim | (Text) | - |
+ | 11. Supplemental Answers | (Text) | - |
+ | IV. CITATION | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Defendant in Texas | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Issuance and Form of Citation | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Who May Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Duty of Person Serving Process | (Text) | - |
+ | B. How to Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. In Person or by Mail | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Substituted Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Return of Service | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Defendant Not in Texas | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Substituted Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Citation by Publication | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Other Substituted Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Requisites of Citation by Publication | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Service of Citation by Publication | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Return of Citation by Publication | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Effect of Citation by Publication - Rules on Other Statutes | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Amendment | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Acceptance of Service | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Defendant's Options When Served With Process | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Appearances by Defendant | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Answer is Appearance | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Constructive Appearance | (Text) | - |
+ | G. Judgments | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Reversal of Judgment | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. No Judgment Without Service | (Text) | - |
+ | V. PRETRIAL PROCEDURE | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Pretrial Conference | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Summary Judgment | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. For Claimant | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. For Defending Party | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Motion and Proceedings | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Use of Discovery Not Otherwise on File | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Case Not Fully Adjudicated on Motion | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Form of Affidavits; Further Testimony | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. When Affidavits Are Unavailable | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Affidavits Made in Bad Faith | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Forms and Scope and Discovery | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Form of Discovery | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Scope of Discovery | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Exemptions | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Presentation of Objections | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Discovery Protective Orders | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Duty to Supplement | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Discovery Motions | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Guardian Ad Litem | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Consolidation and Separate Trials | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Consolidation | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Separate Trials | (Text) | - |
+ | VI. SUBPOENA OF WITNESSES | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Who May Issue | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Who May Request | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Who May Be Subpoenaed | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Separate Subpoenas | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Form of Subpoena | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Subpoena for the Production of Documentary Evidence | (Text) | - |
+ | G. Service of Subpoenas | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Who May Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. How to Serve | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Proof of Service | (Text) | - |
+ | H. Subpoenaed Witness Must Attend the Trial | (Text) | - |
+ | I. Refusal to Testify | (Text) | - |
+ | J. Party as a Witness | (Text) | - |
+ | VII. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEDURES | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Referral to an Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedure | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Notification and Objection | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Appointment of Impartial Third Parties | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Qualifications of Impartial Third Party | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Standards and Duties of Impartial Third Parties | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Compensation of Impartial Third Parties | (Text) | - |
+ | VIII. THE JURY IN COURT | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Request and Fee for Jury Trial | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Request | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Jury Fee | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Inability to Pay Jury Fee | (Text) | - |
+ | B. Jury Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Jury Trial Day | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Withdrawing Cause from Jury Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Assembling the Potential Jurors | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Jury List in Certain Counties | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Preparing the Jury List in Other Counties | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Summoning More Jurors | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Challenging the Manner of Juror Selection | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Selecting a Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Oath to Jury Panel | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Certain Questions Not to be Asked | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Challenge to Juror | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Final Selection of Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. If Jury is Incomplete | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Oath to Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | IX. TRIAL OF CAUSES | (Text) | - |
+ | A. Appearance and Procedure | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Appearance Day | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Call of Appearance Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Judgment by Default | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Assessing Damages on Liquidated Damages | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Unliquidated Damages | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. On Service by Publication | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Assignment of Cases for Trial | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Clerk Must Give Notice of Settings | (Text) | - |
+ | 9. Tried When Set | (Text) | - |
+ | 10. Jury Cases | (Text) | - |
+ | 11. Call of Non-jury Docket | (Text) | - |
+ | B. The Trial | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Trial by the Court | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Agreed Case | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Video-recorded Trial | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Order of Proceedings in Trial by Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Open and Close | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Witnesses Placed Under Rule | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Motion for Instructed Verdict | (Text) | - |
+ | C. Charge to the Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. General | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Requisites of the Charge | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Charge Read Before Argument | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Additions to Charge Requested by Parties | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Objections and Requests | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Refusal or Modification of Request | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Submission to the Jury - Form of the Charge | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Submission of Questions, Definitions, and Instructions | (Text) | - |
+ | D. Submitting the Case to the Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Presiding Juror | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. What the Jury May Take to the Jury Room | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Jury Kept Together | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Judge Must Caution Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Duty of Officer Attending Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Jury May Communicate with Court | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Jury May Receive Further Instructions | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Disagreement as to Evidence | (Text) | - |
+ | 9. Court Open for Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 10. Discharge of Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | E. Verdict | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Definitions | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Form of Verdict | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Non-unanimous Verdict | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. When the Jury Has Decided | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Polling the Jury | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Correction of Verdict | (Text) | - |
+ | F. Findings by the Court | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Requests for Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Time to File Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. Additional or Amended Findings and Conclusions | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Omitted Findings | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Findings of Fact Must be Filed Separately | (Text) | - |
+ | G. Judgments | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Form | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Judgment Non Obstante Veredicto (Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict) | (Text) | - |
+ | 3. One Judgment per Cause | (Text) | - |
+ | 4. Court to Render Judgment | (Text) | - |
+ | 5. Contents of Judgment | (Text) | - |
+ | 6. Counterclaims | (Text) | - |
+ | 7. Counterclaims and Costs | (Text) | - |
+ | 8. Judgments on the Record | (Text) | - |
+ | 9. Proposed Judgments | (Text) | - |
+ | 10. Periods to Run from Signing of Judgment | (Text) | - |
+ | 11. Prematurely Filed Documents | (Text) | - |
+ | 12. Exceptions | (Text) | - |
+ | 13. Court Must Enforce its Decrees | (Text) | - |
+ | 14. Judgments in Particular Types of Cases | (Text) | - |
+ | H. Remittitur and Correction | (Text) | - |
+ | 1. Remittitur | (Text) | - |
+ | 2. Correction of Clerical Mistakes in Judgment Record | (Text) | - |
+ | I. Motion for New Trial | (Text) | - |
