Sec. 1. The purpose of this chapter is to enable the supreme court to:
(1) simplify and abbreviate the pleadings and proceedings;
(2) expedite the decision of causes;
(3) remedy abuses and imperfections that exist in the practice;
(4) abolish unnecessary forms and technicalities in pleading and practice; and
(5) abolish fictions and unnecessary process and proceedings.
[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-5-2-1 part.]
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.3.