Landmark case · Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation · Semester 5

Vasudev Dhanjibhai Modi v. Rajabhai Abdul Rehman

AIR 1970 SC 1475 · Supreme Court of India

The executing court cannot go behind the decree; it must take the decree as it stands unless the decree is a nullity.

From topic

Execution of decrees (Order XXI) — Unit III, Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation.

Related sections:

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 36–42 — Execution in general and by courts of another jurisdiction
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 47 — Questions to be determined by the court executing the decree
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 51 — Powers of court to enforce execution
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, O. XXI — Execution of decrees and orders