https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280893 The right of appeal is statutory and is lost only by a clear legal bar or conduct that unmistakably shows waiver, abandonment, election or estoppel. An appeal filed before the decree was drawn up, and directed only against an instalment order under Order 20 Rule 11 CPC, was treated as incompetent because the order had not yet merged into a decree. Withdrawal of that incompetent appeal did not prevent a later competent appeal against the decree on merits. A prior request for instalments before judgment, together with prompt steps to obtain certified copies and the short interval between filings, did not amount to acceptance of the decree or bar the later appeal. en-us Thu, 05 May 1983 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 24 May 2019 16:02:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280893 The right of appeal is statutory and is lost only by a clear legal bar or conduct that unmistakably shows waiver, abandonment, election or estoppel. An appeal filed before the decree was drawn up, and directed only against an instalment order under Order 20 Rule 11 CPC, was treated as incompetent because the order had not yet merged into a decree. Withdrawal of that incompetent appeal did not prevent a later competent appeal against the decree on merits. A prior request for instalments before judgment, together with prompt steps to obtain certified copies and the short interval between filings, did not amount to acceptance of the decree or bar the later appeal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 05 May 1983 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280893