Lalji Koeri vs Gajadhar Koeri on 3 October, 1961
4. The main point which has been canvassed on behalf of the appellant is that the orders of the courts below holding that the decree-holder's execution application was not barred by time are erroneous. His contention is that the decree-holder could have given the notice in terms of the compromise decree and could have executed the decree on the very date on which it was passed and hence the limitation started running from the date of the compromise decree itself and Article 182 of the old Limitation Act (Act No. IX of 1908) applied and the execution application having been made after six years of the decree was barred by limitation. Reliance was placed on behalf of the appellant on Narain Tewari's case AIR 1931 All 326 (supra). In that case a decree was obtained in 1912 by Mst. Jokhna Tewarin against Raja Bahadur Brij Narain Rai and Rai Jagdish Narain Rai. The decree passed against them was for delivery of possession of Zamindari Property but it provided that the right of possession was contingent upon the decree-holder depositing in the court to the credit of the judgment-debtors certain sum of money. No date for payment of the same was specified by the decree. The decree-holder died. She did not fulfil the condition in her lifetime nor did she apply for execution of the decree. The application for execution was made by her sons and heirs on 31-7-1928. Money was deposited in the court to the credit of the judgment-debtors in September 1928. It was held by the High Court that Article 181 of the Limitation Act applied and Limitation would be three years from the date when the right to apply for execution accrued. The rule of law was thus stated: