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Rule 13. Penalty for Fictitious Suits or Pleading

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Any attorney who shall bring a fictitious suit as an experiment to get an opinion of the court, or who shall file any fictitious pleading in a cause for such a purpose, or shall make statements in pleading presenting a state of case which he knows to be groundless and false, for the purpose of securing a delay of the trial of the cause, shall be held guilty of a contempt; and the court, of its own motion, or at the instance of any party, will direct an inquiry to ascertain the fact.

Source: Texas Rule 51 (for District and County Courts), unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.

AMENDMENTS

July 15, 1987, eff. Jan. 1, 1988

April 24, 1990, eff. Sept. 1, 1990