{"id":186136,"date":"1902-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1902-01-22T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/alagappa-chetti-vs-sabathambal-and-ors-on-23-january-1902"},"modified":"2019-03-24T04:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T22:58:24","slug":"alagappa-chetti-vs-sabathambal-and-ors-on-23-january-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/alagappa-chetti-vs-sabathambal-and-ors-on-23-january-1902","title":{"rendered":"Alagappa Chetti vs Sabathambal And Ors. on 23 January, 1902"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Alagappa Chetti vs Sabathambal And Ors. on 23 January, 1902<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1902) ILR 25 Mad 724<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Moore<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Moore<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Moore, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The order of the District Judge cannot be upheld, The petitioner was arrested on the 22nd January 1899 but was released under Section 336, Civil Procedure Code, on his furnishing security that he would within one month apply to be declared an insolvent. For reasons that need not be considered he did not apply to a court having jurisdiction till the 6th May 1899 when ha made the present application to the District Munsif of Madura, who rejected it as out of time. On appeal, his order was confirmed by the District Judge. It does not appear that there is any question as to a bar by limitation in a case of this sort. As the petitioner did not put in his application to be declared an insolvent within the prescribed time he was liable to be committed to jail and if this had been done he would certainly have had to put in a fresh application under the third clause of paragraph (b) of the proviso to Section 336, Civil Procedure Code. He was not, however, so arrested and it is therefore still open to him to apply under Section 344, Civil Procedure Code, to be declared an insolvent on the strength of the permission given to him to do so on the 23rd January 1899.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. This appeal is allowed, the order of the District Judge is set aside with costs and the appeal is sent back to him for decision of the other points raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Alagappa Chetti vs Sabathambal And Ors. on 23 January, 1902 Equivalent citations: (1902) ILR 25 Mad 724 Author: Moore Bench: Moore JUDGMENT Moore, J. 1. The order of the District Judge cannot be upheld, The petitioner was arrested on the 22nd January 1899 but was released under Section 336, Civil Procedure Code, [&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-186136","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alagappa Chetti vs Sabathambal And Ors. on 23 January, 1902 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/alagappa-chetti-vs-sabathambal-and-ors-on-23-january-1902\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alagappa Chetti vs Sabathambal And Ors. on 23 January, 1902 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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