Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Chapter IX: Special Provisions Relating to the High Courts Not Being the Court of A Judicial Commissioner
Section 118: Execution of decree before ascertainment of costs
In plain words
Where such a High Court thinks a decree in its original civil jurisdiction should be executed before costs can be assessed, it can order immediate execution except for the costs, which can be executed once assessed.
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Official text
Where any such High Court considers it necessary that a decree passed in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction should be executed before the amount of the costs incurred in the suit can be ascertained by taxation, the Court may order that the decree shall be executed forthwith, except as to so much thereof as relates to the costs;
and, as to so much thereof as relates to the costs, that the decree may be executed as soon as the amount of the costs shall be ascertained by taxation.
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Supreme Court judgments citing the section 118
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