Order XXI Rule 84

Deposit by purchaser and re-sale on default

Execution of Decrees and Orders, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

(1) On every sale of immovable property the person declared to be the purchaser shall pay immediately after such declaration a deposit of twenty-five per cent. on the amount of his purchase-money to the officer or other person conducting the sale, and in default of such deposit, the property shall forthwith be re-sold.

(2) Where the decree-holder is the purchaser and is entitled to set-off the purchase-money under rule 72, the Court may dispense with the requirements of this rule.

How this Rule is cited

It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XXI Rule 84 CPC and Order 21 Rule 84 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.

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