{"id":178087,"date":"1939-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1939-04-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-narayanachari-vs-t-v-a-k-t-annamalai-chettiar-on-28-april-1939"},"modified":"2015-02-20T03:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:53:50","slug":"s-narayanachari-vs-t-v-a-k-t-annamalai-chettiar-on-28-april-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-narayanachari-vs-t-v-a-k-t-annamalai-chettiar-on-28-april-1939","title":{"rendered":"S. Narayanachari vs T.V.A.K.T. Annamalai Chettiar on 28 April, 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">S. Narayanachari vs T.V.A.K.T. Annamalai Chettiar on 28 April, 1939<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1939) 2 MLJ 225<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Newsam<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Newsam, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The petitioner was a puisne usufructuary mortgagee. In a suit by the first mortgagee he was impleaded and the suit was decreed. Petitioner, though in terms directed to redeem, that is, to discharge the first mortgage, was in reality merely granted a privilege &#8211; the privilege of freeing his own security and preserving his possession. In no sense of the word is he a debtor. The decree is not against him for a debt payable by him, but in his favour allowed him a right in equity to redeem the first mortgage. To use the language of Section 3(iii) of the Debt Relief Act, petitioner is under no liability under the decree. His is not a debt.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The learned District Munsif of Tirupathi has in my judgment rightly dismissed his petition under Section 20 of the Debt Relief Act. I dismiss the revision petition with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court S. Narayanachari vs T.V.A.K.T. Annamalai Chettiar on 28 April, 1939 Equivalent citations: (1939) 2 MLJ 225 Author: Newsam JUDGMENT Newsam, J. 1. The petitioner was a puisne usufructuary mortgagee. In a suit by the first mortgagee he was impleaded and the suit was decreed. Petitioner, though in terms directed to redeem, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S. Narayanachari vs T.V.A.K.T. 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