ORDER 1. The question raised by this appeal is whether the plaintiff appellant is entitled to recover on a pro-note which is the third renewal of the pro-note originally executed by a deceased testator, those renewals having been given by two cut of three executors appointed by his will. 2. The first objection taken to the plaintiffs case is that two out of the three executors were not competent to act alone. That is negatived by Section 92, Probate and Administration Act, V of 1881, unless the defendants respondents can show that the will contains in the words of the section "a direction to the contrary". We have read the will, but cannot find any such direction in it, either express or implied. 3. It is then said that Section 92 deals only with several executors and that the word several there means possessing powers to act severally." We have been shown no authority whatever for this contention, which is inconsistent with the use of the word several in ordinary parlance.-. 4. The third question raised by the appeal is more important. It is whether an executor is competent to renew a barred deft. We have not been shown any ground, on which cases of renewal of a barred debt can be distinguished from cases of payment. Authorities on the latter class of cases are available. Tilakchand Hindumal v. Jitamal Sundaram (1873) 10 Bom. H.C.R. 206, Administrator-General v. Hawkins (1877) I.L.R. 1 Mad. 267 and Samuel Pillai v. Ananthanatha Pillai (1883) I.L.R. 6 Mad. 351 the two last mentioned dealing with the competence, not of an executor, but of an administrator, although that is not relied on as affording ground for any distinction, On the other side Gopalnarain Mozoomdar v. Muddomutty (1873) 14 Beng. L.R. Mad. 21 has been cited; but we are unable to follow that decision in preference to those already mentioned, two of which were given in this Court. It is true that all these decisions were given before the enactment of the Probate and Administration Act, But we find that in Jethibai v. Pullibai (1912) 14 Bom. L.R. 1020 Beaman, J stated obiter that an executor could renew a barred debt; and there is no reason for holding that the Probate and Administration Act should be read as superseding the previous law in virtue of its silence on a point of this importance. L.R. 1020 Beaman, J stated obiter that an executor could renew a barred debt; and there is no reason for holding that the Probate and Administration Act should be read as superseding the previous law in virtue of its silence on a point of this importance. We have also considered whether the authorities above mentioned which are based on Norton v. Frecker 1 A.T.K. 525 and other English cases are open to question, because of the difference between the English and Indian Law of Limitation and the obligation of the court under the hitter to take objection founded on it. In Administrator General v. Hawkins (1877) I.L.R. 1 Mad. 267 however this point was expressly considered and was overruled. We have been referred to no later authority than those specified, but in the circumstances we see no reason for refusing to follow them. We therefore hold that the two executors were entitled to give the suit pro-note in renewal of the previous note or notes which had become barred. 5. That is sufficient for the disposal of this petition and we need not deal with the further question raised by the plaintiff whether another note not yet referred to by us and given by the testators widow was binding on the estate and could afford a valid starting point for limitation. 6. In these circumstances, the petition must be allowed and the Agent must be directed to review his judgment and decree in the light of the foregoing. Costs throughout of the plaintiff and the 1st defendant, i. e., petitioner and 1st defendant, will follow the result and will be paid from the estate. It follows that the 3rd respondents memorandum of objections is dismissed with costs.