1936 (2) TMI 23

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.... the rate of something over ₹ 7,500 per month. The mortgage deed stipulates that the rate of interest on the loan is to be ten annas per cent. per month, that such interest is to be paid monthly, that in the event of simple interest for any consecutive period of twelve months remaining unpaid the borrower will have to pay compound interest at the rate of ten annas per cent. for each month, t....

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....;whether it is open to a mortgagee notwithstanding a stipulation in the mortgage deed to apply payments, or in case when the mortgagee has taken possession, the net realisations of the mortgaged property towards interest, to appropriate such payments or realisations with or without the consent of the mortgagor towards principal?" We are concerned only with the first alternative, namely, befor....

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....owards payment of interest and the balance set off against the principal due. It seems to me that what the mortgagee must do here is to apply the money received in accordance with the provisions of the mortgage deed. The income tax authorities are certainly entitled to assume that he is doing it. In my view there can only be one answer to the question with which we are concerned and the answer to ....