https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171075 In execution proceedings, the executing court must construe the decree in light of the pleadings and the prior proceedings to determine its true scope, rather than confining itself to the bare wording of the drawn-up decree. Where earlier awards and appellate orders had finally excluded certain properties from the claim for possession, those items could not be treated as covered by the decree under execution. The court below erred by ignoring the surrounding record and by extending execution to properties that had been left outside the operative controversy. The decree was therefore held not to extend to the excluded properties, and execution failed as to those items. en-us Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:14:28 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171075 In execution proceedings, the executing court must construe the decree in light of the pleadings and the prior proceedings to determine its true scope, rather than confining itself to the bare wording of the drawn-up decree. Where earlier awards and appellate orders had finally excluded certain properties from the claim for possession, those items could not be treated as covered by the decree under execution. The court below erred by ignoring the surrounding record and by extending execution to properties that had been left outside the operative controversy. The decree was therefore held not to extend to the excluded properties, and execution failed as to those items. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171075