The French word Complainte refers to a lament or plaint. They found that Schupp had already lodged a plaint against the church authorities. The equivalent of modern plaint was called "purvapaksha", and that of written statement as "uttar". Order VII of the CPC deals with plaint. The code is silent about any comprehensive procedure to be adopted for Plaint checking. The chapter deals with the essential points that a plaint ought to bear. A plaint number is "an old-fashioned term for a claim number".