https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167653 Arrears of rent that were already barred by limitation could not be recovered under section 7 of the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1958, because the word "payable" in that provision means legally recoverable. The Court held that section 7 creates only a summary recovery mechanism and does not confer a fresh right to recover a debt that is no longer enforceable in law. The fact that the provision does not specify its own limitation period did not permit recovery of time-barred dues, so the limitation objection was correctly upheld. en-us Tue, 20 Apr 1976 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:58:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167653 Arrears of rent that were already barred by limitation could not be recovered under section 7 of the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1958, because the word "payable" in that provision means legally recoverable. The Court held that section 7 creates only a summary recovery mechanism and does not confer a fresh right to recover a debt that is no longer enforceable in law. The fact that the provision does not specify its own limitation period did not permit recovery of time-barred dues, so the limitation objection was correctly upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 20 Apr 1976 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167653