- Order 21, rule 15 of Civil Procedure Rules : Decree in suit for dissolution of partnership
Where a suit is for the dissolution of a partnership, or the taking of partnership accounts, the court, before passing a final decree, may pass a preliminary decree, declaring the proportionate shares of the parties, fixing the day on which the partnership shall stand dissolved, or be deemed to have...
- Order 21, rule 16 of Civil Procedure Rules : Decree in suit for account between principal and agent
In a suit for an account of pecuniary transactions between a principal and an agent, and in any other suit not hereinbefore provided for, where it is necessary, in order to ascertain the amount of money due to or from any party, that an account should be taken, the court shall, before passing its...
- Order 21, rule 17 of Civil Procedure Rules : Special directions as to accounts
The court may, either by the decree directing an account to be taken or by any subsequent order, give special directions with regard to the mode in which the account is to be taken or vouched, and in particular may direct that in taking the account the books of account in which the accounts in...
- Order 21, rule 18 of Civil Procedure Rules : Decree in suit for partition of property or separate possession of a share
Where a court passes a decree for the partition of property or for the separate possession of a share therein, the court may, if the partition or separation cannot be conveniently made without further inquiry, pass a preliminary decree declaring the rights of the parties interested in the property...
- Order 21, rule 19 of Civil Procedure Rules : Decree where set-off is allowed
(1) Where the defendant has been allowed a set-off against the claim of the plaintiff, the decree shall state what amount is due to the plaintiff and what amount is due to the defendant, and shall be for the recovery of any sum which appears to be due to either party.
(2) Any decree passed in a...
- Order 21, rule 20 of Civil Procedure Rules : Certified copies of judgment and decree to be furnished
The registrar, or in the case of a subordinate court, the presiding magistrate shall upon written request made by the parties or any of them, and upon payment of requisite fees, furnish certified copies of the judgment and decree:
Provided that nothing in this rule shall preclude the registrar or...
- Order 22, rule 1 of Civil Procedure Rules : Modes of paying money under decree
(1) All money payable under a decree or order shall be paid as follows—
(a) into the court whose duty it is to execute the decree;
(b) direct to the decree-holder; or
(c) otherwise as the court which made the decree directs.
(2) Where any payment is made under subrule (1) (a), notice of...
- Order 22, rule 2 of Civil Procedure Rules : Payment out of court to decree-holder
(1) Where any money payable under a decree of any kind is paid direct to the decreeholder or the decree is otherwise adjusted in whole or in part to the satisfaction of the decree-holder, the decree- holder may certify such payment or adjustment to the court whose duty it is to execute the decree,...
- Order 22, rule 3 of Civil Procedure Rules : Lands situate in more than one jurisdiction
Where immovable property forms one estate or tenure situate within the local limits of the jurisdiction of two or more courts, any one of such courts may attach and sell the entire estate or tenure.
- Order 22, rule 4 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure where court desires that its own decree shall be executed by another court
The court sending a decree for execution by another court shall send—
(a) a copy of the decree;
(b) a certificate setting forth that satisfaction of the decree has not been obtained by execution within the jurisdiction of the court by which it was passed, or, where the decree has been executed...
- Order 22, rule 5 of Civil Procedure Rules : Court receiving copies of decree to file same without proof
The court to which a decree is so sent shall cause such copies and certificates to be filed, without any further proof of the decree or order for execution, or of the copies thereof, unless the court, for any special reasons to be recorded under the hand of the judge, requires such proof.
- Order 22, rule 6 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for execution
Where the holder of a decree desires to execute it, he shall apply to the court which passed the decree, or, if the decree has been sent under the provisions hereinbefore contained to another court, then to such court or to the proper officer thereof; and applications under this rule shall be in...
- Order 22, rule 7 of Civil Procedure Rules : Oral and written applications
(1) Where a decree is for the payment of money the court may, on the oral application of the decree-holder at the time of the passing of the decree, order immediate execution thereof by the arrest of the judgment-debtor, prior to the preparation of a warrant, if he is within the precincts of the...
- Order 22, rule 8 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for attachment of movable property not in judgment-debtor’s possession
Where an application is made for the attachment of any movable property belonging to a judgment-debtor, but not in his possession, the decree-holder shall annex to the application an inventory of the property to be attached, containing a reasonably accurate description of the same.
- Order 22, rule 9 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for attachment of immovable property to contain certain particulars
Where an application is made for the attachment of any immovable property belonging to a judgment-debtor, it shall contain at the foot—
(a) a description of such property sufficient to identify the same, and, in case
such property can be identified by boundaries, or numbers in Government records...
- Order 22, rule 10 of Civil Procedure Rules : Power to require certified extract from Land Registries in certain cases
Where an application is made for the attachment of any land which is registered in the Land Registries, the court may require the applicant to produce a certified extract from the register of such office, specifying the persons registered as proprietors of, or as possessing, any transferable...
- Order 22, rule 11 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for execution by joint decree-holders
(1) Where a decree has been passed jointly in favour of more persons than one, any one or more of such persons may, unless the decree imposes any condition to the contrary, apply for the execution of the whole decree for the benefit of them all, or where any of them has died, for the benefit of the...
- Order 22, rule 12 of Civil Procedure Rules : Application for execution by transferee of decree
Where a decree or, if a decree has been passed jointly in favour of two or more persons, the interest of any decree-holder in the decree is transferred by assignment in writing or by operation of law, the transferee may apply for execution of the decree to the court which passed it; and the decree...
- Order 22, rule 13 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure on receiving an application for execution of decree
(1) On receiving an application for the execution of a decree as provided by rule 7(2), the court shall ascertain whether such of the requirements of rules 7 to 9 as may be applicable to the case have been complied with; and, if they have not been complied with, the court may reject the application,...
- Order 22, rule 14. of Civil Procedure Rules : Execution in case of cross-decrees
(1) Where applications are made to a court for the execution of cross-decrees in separate suits for the payment of two sums of money passed between the same parties and capable of execution at the same time by such court, then—
(a) if the two sums are equal, satisfaction shall be entered upon...
- Order 22, rule 15 of Civil Procedure Rules : Execution in case of cross-claims under same decree
Where application is made to a court for the execution of a decree under which two parties are entitled to recover sums of money from each other, then—
(a) if the two sums are equal, satisfaction for both shall be entered upon the decree; and
(b) if the two sums are unequal, execution may be...
- Order 22, rule 16 of Civil Procedure Rules : Cross-decrees and cross-claims in mortgage suits
The provisions of rules 14 and 15 shall apply when one or both of the decrees for sale is in enforcement of a mortgage or charge.
- Order 22, rule 17 of Civil Procedure Rules : Simultaneous execution
The court may, in its discretion, refuse execution at the same time against the person and property of the judgment-debtor.
- Order 22, rule 18 of Civil Procedure Rules : Notice to show cause against execution in certain cases
(1) Where an application for execution is made—
(a) more than one year after the date of the decree;
(b) against the legal representative of a party to the decree; or (c) for attachment of salary or allowance of any person under rule 43,
the court executing the decree shall issue a notice...
- Order 22, rule 19 of Civil Procedure Rules : Procedure after issue of notice
(1) Where the person to whom notice is issued under rule 18 does not appear or does not show cause to the satisfaction of the court why the decree should not be executed, the court shall order the decree to be executed.
(2) Where such person offers any objection to the execution of the decree, the...
- Order 22, rule 20 of Civil Procedure Rules : Process of execution
(1) When the preliminary measures (if any) required by the foregoing rules have been taken, the court shall, unless there is cause to the contrary, issue its process for the execution of the decree.
(2) Every such process shall bear the date and the day on which it is issued, and shall be signed...
- Order 22, rule 21 of Civil Procedure Rules : Endorsement on process
(1) The officer entrusted with the execution of the process shall endorse thereon the day on, and the manner in which it was executed, and, if the latest day specified in the process for the return thereof has been exceeded, the reason for the delay, or, if it was not executed, the reason why it...
- Order 22, rule 22 of Civil Procedure Rules : When court may stay execution
(1) The court to which a decree has been sent for execution shall, upon sufficient cause being shown, stay the execution of such decree for a reasonable time to enable the judgment-debtor to apply to the court by which the decree was passed, or to any court having appellate jurisdiction in respect...
- Order 22, rule 23 of Civil Procedure Rules : Liability of judgment-debtor discharged
No order of restitution or discharge under rule 22 shall prevent the property or person of a judgment-debtor from being retaken in execution of the decree sent for execution.
- Order 22, rule 24 of Civil Procedure Rules : Order of court which passed decree or of appellate court to be binding upon court applied to
Any order of the court by which a decree is passed, or of such appellate court as aforesaid, in relation to the execution of such decree, shall be binding upon the court to which the decree is sent for execution.