JUDGMENT 1. This is an appeal against an order of the District Judge of the 24-Pergunnahs, dated the 19th of February 1901. The order was passed in an execution case. It appears that the Appellants before us were landlords and sued for arrears of rent but had parted with their interest as landlords before they obtained their decree. They then assigned their decree to one Abinash Chandra Chatterjee, and as the assignee had not acquired the right of the assignors as landlords, he was met by the provisions of cl. (h) to sec. 148 of the Bengal Tenancy Act, and execution to the decree was refused to him. He thereupon reassigned the decree to the present Appellants, who sought to take out execution of it. The Appellants have in their turn been met by cl. (h) to sec. 148 of the Bengal Tenancy Act. The judgment-debtor has objected that, according to the terms of their clause, the Appellants cannot execute the decree, being no longer landlords, but assignees of the decree. 2. The District Judge has given effect to this objection and has disallowed the Appellants' application for execution. 3. It appears to us that the District Judge has overlooked the fact that when the Appellants obtained the decree for arrears of rent they had previously parted with their interest as landlords. They therefore did not obtain a decree for arrears of rent as landlords, but obtained a decree for money as ordinary suitors. The provisions of cl. (h) of sec. 148 of the Bengal Tenancy Act would therefore seem to us no bar to the present application for execution, because the decree which is now sought to be executed was an ordinary decree, and the Appellants were not landlords at the time they obtained the decree. We therefore think that the execution can proceed. 4. We would add that cl. (h) of sec. 148 of the Bengal Tenancy Act imposes a limitation upon the execution of a decree for rent and therefore it should be interpreted strictly and should not be extended to any person who does not come properly within its provisions. 5. The appeal is decreed. The execution case will now be restored and the lower Court will proceed to execute the decree. We assess the hearing fee in this case at two gold mohurs.