Part IV. Parties
- Rule 17. Parties plaintiff and defendant -- capacity
- Rule 17(a). Real party in interest.
- Rule 17(b). Capacity to sue or be sued.
- Rule 17(c). Infants or incompetent persons.
- Rule 18. Joinder of claims and remedies
- Rule 18(a). Joinder of claims.
- Rule 18(b). Joinder of remedies -- fraudulent conveyances.
- Rule 19. Joinder of persons needed for just adjudication
- Rule 19(a). Persons to be joined if feasible.
- Rule 19(b). Determination by court of whenever joinder not feasible.
- Rule 19(c). Pleading reasons for nonjoinder.
- Rule 19(d). Exception of class actions.
- Rule 20. Permissive joinder of parties
- Rule 20(a). Permissive joinder.
- Rule 20(b). Separate trials.
- Rule 21. Misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties.
- Rule 22. Interpleader
- Rule 22(a). By joinder, cross-claim or counterclaim.
- Rule 22(b). By substitution.
- Rule 23. Class actions
- Rule 23(a). Prerequisites to a class action.
- Rule 23(b). Class actions maintainable.
- Rule 23(c). Determination by order whether class action to be maintained -- notice -- judgment -- actions conducted partially as class actions.
- Rule 23(d). Order in conduct of actions.
- Rule 23(e). Dismissal or compromise.
- Rule 23(f). Security for costs.
- Rule 23.1. Derivative actions by shareholders.
- Rule 23.2. Actions relating to unincorporated associations.
- Rule 24. Intervention
- Rule 24(a). Intervention of right.
- Rule 24(b). Permissive intervention.
- Rule 24(c). Procedure.
- Rule 24(d). Cases involving constitutional questions where the state is not a party.
- Rule 25. Substitution of parties
- Rule 25(a). Death.
- Rule 25(b). Incompetency.
- Rule 25(c). Transfer of interest.
- Rule 25(d). Public officers -- death or separation from office.