Sir John Edge:- This is an appeal from a decree, dated the 26th October, 1917, of the High Court at Madras which reversed an order, dated the 31st January, 1916, of the District Judge of Nellore, dismissing a petition which had been made by the respondent. In order to under stand what was the decree of the High Court against which this appeal has been brought it will be necessary to refer as briefly as possible to the position of the parties to the appeal and to the circum stances under which the decree of the High Court was made. The present ap pellant and the present respondent will hereinafter be referred to respectively as the appellant and the respondent. The respondent having obtained a money decree against the Zamindar of Kalahasti for a large sum of money in execution of his decree, brought to sale on the 25th August, 1914, the rights and interests of the judgment-debtor in cer tain villages of Pamoor Taluq, in the District of Nellore. Those villages had been, on the 4th August, 1908, conveyed by the Zamindar for six lakhs of rupees to a person at Hyderabad, who by an agreement in writing of the same date had agreed with the Zamindar to reconvey the villages to him if the sum of six lakhs of rupees was repaid by the 31st August, 1914. That transaction constituted a mortgage by conditional sale. The property mortgaged was attached by an order of the Court, executing the decree, and the rights and interests of the judgment-debtor were by that Court ordered to be sold in execution of that decree. The Court in compliance with Rule 66 of Order 21 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, caused a proclamation of the intended sale to be duly made. In the proclamation the judgment-debtor's rights and interests in the villages were stated as- The right of obtaining a reconveyance under the reconveyance agreement, dated 4th August, 1908, executed and given to the defendant by Raja Bahadur Narasingirji Gyanagirji, residing at Hyderabad, and all the other rights and interests possessed by the defendant, in these villages." The deed of sale and the agreement to reconvey of the 4th August, 1908, were also mentioned in the proclamation. The agreement to reconvey was No. 3 in the list of documents affecting the property to be sold, and in the column of Remarks it was stated that ''Under deed No. 3 the defendant has right to have a reconvey ance of the said property." The procla mation gave other particulars, and in their Lordships' opinion complied with Rule 66 of Order 21. The auction sale was held on the 25th August, 1914; and the appellant was declared to be the purchaser; his bid was Rs. 6,99,000, and he, after he had been declared the purchaser, duly paid to the officer conducting the sale, Rs. 1,72,500 as the deposit required by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, being twenty-five per centum of the purchase money. He, however, made default in payment, within the prescribed period of the balance of the purchase money. The Court declined to grant to him an extension of time to pay the balance, and when the pres cribed period for payment of the balance had expired, the Court executing the decree ordered the property to be resold. That Court ordered that the deposit should not be forfeited to the Government, and it, less poundage and other charges, remained in Court. The appellant had, by the proclamation, notice of the rights and interests of the judgment-debtor which were to be sold, and he, or any competent lawyer whom he chose to advise him, could have examined the sale-deed and agreement to reconvey of 4th August, 1908, and be must be taken to have known the effect of those docu ments or to have intentionally or negli gently omitted to examine them. Doubt less he examined those documents, but whether he did or not is immaterial as he had, by the proclamation, notice of them. The property was, after the prescribed period, resold by public auction on or about the 22nd February, 1915, after a proclamation, that it would be sold, had been duly made. In the proclamation for the resale the particulars of the property to be sold were correctly stated, the deed of sale and the agreement to recon vey of the 4th August, 1908, were men tioned as Documents 2 and 3, with the following comments as to them :- " Sale-deed executed by the defendant in favour of Raja Bahadur Narasingirji Gyanagirji for Rs. 6,00,000. 6,00,000. "Counter reconveyance agreement exe cuted in favour of this defendant by the aforesaid Raja Bahadur Narasingirji Gyana girji. (This defendant has the right to get possession on a fresh sale-deed being exe cuted, of all these villages, on repayment of six lakhs of rupees within the end of August, 1914, in accordance with the two documents aforesaid.) " (1) When in accordance with the con ditions of documents Nos. 2 and 3, the defendant endeavoured to tender six lakhs of rupees within the date fixed therein, Raja Bahadur Narasingirji Gyanagirji Garu evaded the tender with a fraudulent intent and went away; for this reason, as well as for the reason that the transaction contained in those documents amounts to a mortgage from their nature, the said Narasingirji Gyanagirji Garu has the right to recover only the said six lakhs of rupees, and he has no other right in the villages of this Pamoor Taluk. Therefore this property has to be sold subject to the said right as ? the said documents." The proclamation for the resale contain ed other particulars, and in their Lord-ships' opinion complied with the orders of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. At the resale the rights and interests of the judgment-debtor in the property were sold for Rs. 1,01,000 to one Janikiramayya who was an agent of the decree-holder. In November, 1914, the appellant applied to the Court which had executed the decree to order a refund to him of the deposit which had been made by him on the 25th August, 1914. On the 24th April 1915, the respondent, alleging that on the resale a deficiency of Rs. 5,89,000 had occurred for which the appellant was liable applied by petition to the Court which had executed the decree that it should "issued orders for recovery and payment of about Rs. 1,25,000, the amount due to him as the decree-holder in this execution sale and also the costs of the petition, by attaching the said deposit amount of about Rs. 1,60,000." After deducting poundage and other charges, the balance of the deposit in Court appears to have been about Rs. 1,60,000. The application was clearly confined to the deposit and did not apply to the general deficiency which was the result of the resale. 1,60,000." After deducting poundage and other charges, the balance of the deposit in Court appears to have been about Rs. 1,60,000. The application was clearly confined to the deposit and did not apply to the general deficiency which was the result of the resale. To that petition the appellant replied by a counter-petition on the 12th July, 1915, in which he denied that he was liable for the deficiency in price realised at the sale (resale) of the properties which was held on the 22nd February 1915, and stated that he "had filed two petitions and an affidavit showing cause against the forfeiture of the deposit made by him on the 25th August, 1914, and claiming refund of the amount so deposited." On the 31st January, 1916, the appli cation of the respondent of the 24th April, 1915, was considered by the District Judge of Nellore, and he holding that "the descriptions in the two proclamations are materially and sub stantially different, and the character of the property as it stood and as it was descri bed in the first proclamation was literally and judicially different from its character as described in the second proclamation," made an order that the respondent was not entitled to the amount deposited in the Court and dismissed the application. From that order the respondent appealed to the High Court, and his agent filed an affidavit in the High Court in which he stated :- 9. " In the circumstances of the case, it is absolutely necessary in the interests of justice and to safeguard the interests of the appellant that this Honourable Court should direct that the sum now in deposit in the District Court of Nellore or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the balance still due to this appellant under his decree, be retained in Court till the disposal of this appeal or be allowed to be drawn out by the respondent on pro per security." The appeal to the High Court came for hearing before two Judges of the Court who differed with the result that the appeal was dismissed. From that dismissal the respondent appealed under the Letters Patent, and his appeal was heard by the Chief Justice and two other Judges, with the result that the appeal was allowed and the High Court, on the 26th October, 1917, made the decree which is now appealed from to His Majesty in Council. By that decree of the 26th October, 1917, the ap peal was allowed with certain costs, and the District Judge of Nellore was ordered to restore the petition of the 24th April, 1915, to its original number in the Regis ter and to dispose of it according to law with regard to the deposit which had been paid by the appellant. In their Lordships' opinion that was the right decree to make. Their Lordships will humbly advise His Majesty that this appeal should be dismissed with costs. Appeal dismissed.