High Courts

Narayanan Chetti and Another vs Panchanathan Chettiar and Others

Madras High Court · Decided on 1 September 1939 · Citation: (1940) ILR (Mad) 79 : (1939) 50 LW 605 : (1939) 2 MLJ 758

ACTS & SECTIONS REFERRED
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 16, 2
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We cannot accept the contention on behalf of the appellants, that they are decree-holders who can execute the decree without recognition by

the Court which passed the decree of the devolution upon them of the decree. The appellants are not ""decree-holders"" as defined in Section 2 of

the Code of Civil Procedure. Their father was the sole decree-holder, and although the sons may well have been entitled along with him to the

benefits of the decree a thing which has yet to be investigated - it is impossible to say that they were, or are ""decree-holders"". The decree has been

transferred to them by operation of law on the death of their father and Order 21, Rule 16 of the CPC is applicable. With respect we are not able

to agree with the learned Judge who decided the case of Akhori Ramsewak Prasad Vs. Saran Singh and Others, . The decision of the learned

District Judge on this point is in our opinion correct. This appeal is accordingly dismissed with costs.