Tayabbhai M. Bagasarwalla & Another vs Hind Rubber Industries Private Limited ... on 19 February, 1997
26. The Supreme Court in Tayabbhai M. Bagasarwalla v. Hind
Rubber Industries (P) Ltd.1 approved the principle in the decision of the
Court of Appeal in Hadkinson v. Hadkinson2 that a party, who knows of an
order, whether null or valid, regular or irregular, cannot be permitted to
disobey it; and they cannot themselves judge whether an order was null or
valid - whether it was regular or irregular. It held that they should come to
the court and not take upon themselves to determine such a question. The
following statement of law in the said decision was quoted by the Supreme
Court: