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State of Meghalaya - Section

Section 56 in The Garo Hills Autonomous District (Administration of Justice) Rules, 1953

56. Attachment of property.

(1)Property, movable or immovable, belonging to the judgement-debtor over which or the profits of which he has a disposing power which he may exercise for his own benefit, whether the same be held in the name of the judgement-debtor or by another person in trust for him or in his behalf is liable to attachment and sale in execution of a decree :Provided that houses, needful clothing, cooking utensils or implement whereby the owner subsists should not be attached or sold in execution of a decree unless themselves the subject matter of the case or suit. Land may be sold or temporarily transferred where custom admits of individual right in it being transferred.
(2)Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to exempt houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the lands immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) from attachment or sale in execution of decrees for rent of any such house, building, site or land or if themselves be the subject of the suit.
(3)Subject to the provisions of Rule 42, the procedure for the attachment of the property shall be in the spirit of the Code of the Criminal Procedure, 1898 or the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, as the case may be.Miscellaneous