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Mynotes_247 MP HIGH COURT JJA ENGLISH TYPING MOCK TEST

created Dec 26th 2024, 16:07 by Anamika Shrivastava


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He sought to enforce his lien against the defendant's share in the property and obtained a decree for sale. In execution of such decree the property was put to sale, but the debt remained unsatisfied. The plaintiff accordingly applied to the Court under Order Rule 6, of the Code of Civil Procedure on the ground that the balance was legally recoverable from the defendant otherwise than out of the property sold. The defendant contested the matter and finally the Court granted the decree mentioned iii Orde, Rule 6. The defendant appealed to the District Judge from the decree, affixing an 8-annas stamp as Court-fee. His appeal was dismissed and he has come to this Court affixing a stamp of Rs. 2 as Court-fee on the memorandum of appeal. The office has reported that in the case of both the appeals, i.e., in the Court below and in Court the memorandum of appeal is insufficiently stamped, as Article 11 of the Second Schedule of the Court Fees Act does not apply. This Article refers to a memorandum of appeal when the appeal is not from a decree or an order which has the force of a decree. This Article clearly does not apply in the present case, because the appeals both to this Court and in the Court below are from the decree passe, Rule 6, of the Code of Civil Procedure. A reference to that rule makes the matter perfectly clear. It runs as follow: "Where the net proceeds of any such sale are found to be insufficient to pay the amount due to the plaintiff, if the balance is legally recoverable from the defendant otherwise than out of the property sold, the Court may pass a decree for such amount." The appeal in the present case is from a decree passed under this rule. The Code clearly and distinctly distinguishes between orders and decrees and where the Code uses the word decree it does not mean an 'order.' It is quite clear that the order passed by the Court below, using the word in its loose sense, clearly falls

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