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36. SPECIAL CASE

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Application to orders.

1. Power to state case for Court’s opinion.

The provisions of this Code relating to the execution of decrees (including provisions relating to payment under a decree) shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to the execution of orders (including payment under an order).]

(1) (a) a sum of money fixed by the parties or to be determined by the Court shall be paid by one of the parties to the other of them; or (b) some property, movable or immovable, specified in the agreement, shall be delivered by one of the parties to the other of them; or (c) one or more of the parties shall do, or refrain from doing, some other particular act specified in the agreement.

(2) Every case stated under this rule shall be divided into consecutively numbered paragraphs, and shall concisely state such facts and specify such documents as may be necessary to enable the Court to decide the question raised thereby.

2. Where value of subject-matter must be stated.

Where the agreement is for the delivery of any property, or for the doing, or the refraining from doing, any particular act, the estimated value of the property to be delivered, or to which the act specified has reference, shall be slated in the agreement.

3. Agreement to be filed and registered as suit.

(1) The agreement, if framed in accordance with the rules hereinbefore contained, may be filed with an application in the Court which would have jurisdiction to entertain a suit, the amount or value of the subject-matter of which is the same as the amount of value of the subject-matter of the agreement.

(2) The application when so filed, shall be numbered and registered as a suit between one or more of the parties claiming to be interested a plaintiff or plaintiffs, and the other or the others of them as defendant or defendants; and notice shall be given to all the parties to the agreement, other than the party or parties by whom the application was presented.

4. Parties to be subject to Court’s jurisdiction.

Where the agreement has been filed, the parties to it shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court and shall be bound by the statements contained therein.

5. Hearing and disposal of case.

(1) The case shall be set down for hearing as a suit instituted in the ordinary manner, and the provisions of this Code shall apply to such suit so far as the same are applicable.

(2) (a) that the agreement was duly executed by them, (b) that they have a bona fide interest in the question stated therein, and (c) that the same is fit to be decided, it shall proceed to pronounce judgment thereon, in the same way as in an ordinary suit, and upon the judgment so pronounced a decree shall follow.

6. No appeal from a decree passed under rule 5.

No appeal shall lie from a decree passed under rule 5.