ORDER XXI  EXECUTION OF DECREES AND ORDERS - RULE 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 OF CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 1908

What is the Procedure after issue of notice? What is the Process for execution? What is Endorsement on process? When Court may stay execution? What is Liability of judgment-debtor discharged? When Liability of judgment-debtor discharged? What is Stay of execution pending suit between decree-holder and judgment-debtor? Rule 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 of Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908

Procedure after issue of notice, Process for execution, Endorsement on process, When Court may stay execution, Liability of judgment-debtor discharged, Liability of judgment-debtor discharged and Stay of execution pending suit between decree-holder and judgment-debtor are defined under Rule 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29  of Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908. Provisions under these Rules are:


 

Rule 23 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Procedure after issue of notice"

(1) Where the person to whom notice is issued under rule 22 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 otters any objection to the execution of the decree, the Court shall consider such. objection and make such order as it thinks fit.

 

Rule 24 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Process for execution"

(1) When the preliminary measures (if any) required by the foregoing rules have been taken, the Court shall, unless it sees cause to the contrary, issue its process for the execution of the, decree.

(2) Every such process shall bear date the day on which it is issued, and shall be signed by the Judge or such officer as the Court may appoint in this behalf, and shall be scaled with the seal of the Court and delivered to the proper officer to be executed.

(3) In every such process, a day shall be specified on or before which it shall be executed and a day shall also be specified on or before which it shall be returned to the Court, but no process shall be deemed to be void if no day for its return is specified therein.

 

Rule 25 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "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 of the delay, or, if it was not executed, the reason why it was not executed, and shall return the process with such endorsement to the Court.

(2) Where the endorsement is to the effect that such officer is unable to execute the process, the Court shall examine him touching his alleged inability, and may, if it thinks fit, summon and examine witnesses as to such inability, and shall record the result.

 

Rule 26 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "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 of the decree or the execution thereof, for an order to stay execution, or for any other order relating to the decree or execution which might have been made by such Court of first instance or Appellate Court if execution had been issued thereby, or if application for execution had been made thereto.

(2) Where the property or person of the judgment-debtor has been seized under an execution, the Court which issued the execution may order the restitution of such property or the discharge of such person pending the result of the application.

(3) Power to require security from, or impose conditions upon, judgment-debtor-

Before making an order to stay execution, or for the restitution of property or the discharge of the judgment-debtor, the Court shall require such security from. or impose such conditions upon, the judgment-debtor as it thinks fit.

 

Rule 27 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Liability of judgment-debtor discharged"

No order of restitution or discharge under rule 26 shall prevent the property or person of a judgment-debtor from being retaken in execution of the decree sent for execution.

 

Rule 28 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Order of Court which passed decree or of Appellate Court to be binding upon Court applied to"

Any order of the Court by which the decree was passed, or of such Court of appeal as aforesaid, in relation to the execution of such decree, shall he binding upon the Court to which the decree was sent for execution

 

Rule 29 Order XXI of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Stay of execution pending suit between decree-holder and judgment-debtor"

Where a suit is pending in any Court against the holder of a decree of such Court 16[or of a decree which is being executed by such Court, on the part of the person against whom the decree was passed, the Court may, on such terms as to security or otherwise, as it thinks fit, stay execution of the decree until the pending suit has been decided:

Provided that if the decree is one for payment of money, the Court shall, if it grants stay without requiring security, record its reasons for so doing.