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1907 DIGILAW 206 (CAL)

Ram Ratan Chuckerbutty v. Jogesh Chandra Bahttacharya

1907-08-22

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JUDGMENT Mitra and Caspersz, JJ. - The assignor of the present Appellant obtained a decree on a mortgage and thereafter he assigned his interest in the decree to the present Appellant". The deed of assignment was not registered. The Appellant applied under sec. 232 of the Code for an order to be substituted on the record as the decree-holder. It appears that the usual notices under sec. 248 of the Code were issued, and the transferee was allowed to execute the decree. No question was raised at that stage of the proceedings as regards the authority of the Appellant to be placed on the record as the substituted decree-holder. The execution of the decree was carried out and the mortgaged property was sold. Thereafter, on the objection of the judgment-debtor, the sale was set aside and when the Appellant again applied for execution, an objection was raised as to his power to ask for the sale of the hypothecated property, the ground alleged being that the decree being one for sale of Immoveable property within the meaning of sec. 17 of the Registration Act, the assignment of it by means of an unregistered instrument did not transfer the right to exe-cute the decree as if it was a mortgage decree. This contention has been allowed by both the lower Courts. 2. We think that the lower Courts are not correct in the view that they have taken, because, in the first place, the contention raised by the Respondent was not tenable after the transferee was placed on the record as the substituted decree-holder for the purpose of executing the decree and secondly a mortgage decree has been held, at least in two cases of this Court, to be assignable without a registered instrument. The earliest case is Gout Mahomed v. Khawas Ali Khan ILR 23 Cal. 450 (1896). In Baij Nath Lohea v. Benoyendra Nath Palit 6 C.W.N. 5 (1901), Hill and Brett, JJ. followed and relied on the decision in Gous Mahomed v. Khawas Ali Khan ILR 23 Cal. 450 (1896). The Bombay Court has taken a different view. The decision in Koob Lall v. Nittyanund Singh ILR 9 Cal. 839 (1883), is not in conflict with the later decisions of this Court. followed and relied on the decision in Gous Mahomed v. Khawas Ali Khan ILR 23 Cal. 450 (1896). The Bombay Court has taken a different view. The decision in Koob Lall v. Nittyanund Singh ILR 9 Cal. 839 (1883), is not in conflict with the later decisions of this Court. We see no reason at present to differ from the later decisions of this Court, and we accordingly direct that the appeals be decreed and the case sent back to the lower Court for the execution being proceeded with. Costs which we assess at one gold mohur will be added as costs in the cause. Mitra and Caspersz, JJ. 3. This appeal must fail as against the Respondents, Prasanna Narayan Chaudhuri and Kamal Narayan Chaudhuri. They were not made parties, Respondents, in the lower Appellate Court and though an application was made after the hearing was finished, the lower Appellate Court refused the application. The application seems to us to have been properly refused inasmuch as the application was made long after the time for presenting the appeal. They could not, at the stage in which the application was made, be made parties, Respondents, in the lower Appellate Court. In this Court, however, Prasanna Narayan Chaudhuri and Kamal Narayan Chaudhuri were added as Respondents. But this was done without the leave of the Court and it is doubtful also whether leave of the Court would have been given, if an application were made. But it is quite clear that there could be no decree against them inasmuch as they were not made parties in the appeal in the lower Appellate Court. The appeal as far as it covers the Interest of Prasanna Narayan Chaudhuri and Kamal Narayan Chaudhuri is dismissed with costs, one gold mohur. For the reasons given by us in our judgment, dated the 13th April 1907 the appeal against the original judgment-debtor Mohim Chandra Saha will be decreed. We assess the hearing fee at one gold mohur.