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Issues: Whether an unregistered charge created in favour of an officer of a company upon unpaid calls was enforceable under the Explanation to Section 68 of the Indian Companies Act, 1882.
Analysis: Section 68 required registration of mortgages and charges affecting company property and provided that omission to register did not invalidate the security. The Explanation, however, barred officers of the company from availing themselves as such of an unregistered mortgage or charge specifically affecting company property. The decisive question was the meaning of the words "as such". The Court rejected constructions that would confine the prohibition to a special capacity, treat the words as modifying the security rather than the officer, or limit the bar only while the person remained an officer. It held that the language, though inelegant, was intended to reproduce the rule that officers entrusted with the duty of ensuring registration could not enforce an unregistered security in their own favour.
Conclusion: The unregistered charge was not enforceable by the officer, and the objection based on non-registration succeeded against the appellant.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a statute prohibits officers of a company from availing themselves as such of an unregistered charge, the prohibition bars enforcement by an officer who was under a duty to secure registration, even though non-registration does not in general invalidate the charge.
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