Chapter 16

The Order of Speaking for the Plaintiff and Others

There, the plaintiff should speak first, the defendant immediately after. At the end of their statements, the assessors, and after them, the Chief Judge. // K_121 //

He who has the greater grievance or the more significant case shall have the first plaint, not he who presents his case first. // K_122 //

He who has a greater financial or physical grievance, to him the right to be plaintiff should be given, not to him who presents his case first. // K_123 //