461. If there are several defendants, and one or some only file an acquiescence, the court may render judgment in conformity therewith, upon inscription served on all the parties; but if it is of opinion that the case requires a uniform decision for all the defendants, whether by reason of the object of the demand, or in order to avoid contradictory judgments, it does not render judgment immediately but orders that the action be decided by one judgment as against all the defendants.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 461; 1982, c. 17, s. 23.