Kisandas Manekchand vs Ramchandra Murar Patil

Hayward, J.—The plaintiffs sued to redeem their property from a mortgage, passed in satisfaction of certain decretal debts, with the sanction of the Court u/s 257 A of the old CPC (Act XLV of 1882). The defendants have raised only one point before us, namely, that the mortgage bond was sanctioned by the Court u/s 257 A of the old Code of Civil Procedure, and that therefore, the lower Court was debarred from going into the question whether the principal sum shown in the mortgage bond consisted partly of interest as required by the provisions of the Dekkhan Agriculturists'' Relief Act. We have no doubt that the lower Court had jurisdiction to go into that question. The sanction of the Court u/s 257 A of the old CPC was necessary in order to make the agreement, which would otherwise have been void, a good and binding contract. It does not appear that the section was intended to do anything more; and give any further and special force to the contract. It did not and could not, in our opinion, interfere with the jurisdiction to inquire whether the contract included interest in the principal sum conferred by the entirely separate and special Act, the Dekkhan Agriculturists'' Relief Act.

We must, therefore, confirm the decree of the lower Court and dismiss this appeal with costs.