( ১৬ ) Section 225 treats of applications for execution against the representatives of a deceased judginent-debtor. We have expressly provided that such representative shall be liable to the extent of the property of the deceased which has come to his hands and has not been duly disposed of. In section 251, as to applications by a person other than the defendant, who is dispossessed of property in execution of a decree, we have declared that, in hearing such applications, the Court shall confine itself to the grounds specified in the section, and that no such application shall be made by a person to whom the defendant has transforted the property after the institution of the suit in which the decree is made (6 Suth., 148). Section 253.--To this section (as to attachment of property in execution of a decree for money) we have added an explanation showing that a decree for mesne profits, or any other matter, the amount of which in money is to be subsequently determined, is a ‘decree for money' within the meaning of this section. In section 254 we have removed a doubt as to the powers of a person executing a general attachment of moveables who has gained access to a house. To section 258 we have added a clause shewing how a prohibitory order is to be notified where the debt to be attached is duc by a public company to one of its servants. In section 264 we have provided that private alienations of attached property during the coutinuance of the attachment shall be void as against all claims enforceable under the attachment, and not merely as against the party on whose application the attachment was made. Section 268.—We have here provided that, when the Court grants a certificate authorizing the judgment-debtor to sell, mortgage, or lease land attached, the year mentioned in section 233 (after which he may be called on to show cause why the decree should not be executed) shall be computed from the date of the expiry of the certificate. Section 270.–We have here specified with more particularity than is donc by the Bill of 1865, section 391, the liabilitics of managers of attachcd property. Section 272.-Here we have given power to the Local Governments, with the sanction of the Government of India, to make special rules for any territory, imposing conditious in respect to the sale of land in execution of decrees for money. Section 274.—We have added a clause wrohibiting execution sales on holidays or any other day on which the Court is closed (3 Suth. Misc. 24). Section 276 –It has been held that the Collector is a mere ministerial officer under the corresponding section of the present Code, and that he has no discretion as to postponing sales, fixing an upset price, or any othor matter aslecting the substance of the sale. And it is suggested that the Collector ought to have discretion in such matters, or even some larger power to make arrangements for payment of the debt by some means short of an absolute sale of the land. The point is onc on which we should be glad of opinions from those who have been led to study it. It will be remembered that, in section 272, we propose to give power to the Executive to make special rules on the subject of sales of land. Section 277.-Connected with this section is a point of considerable dissiculty. The corresponding section of the Code, namely section 219, directs that nothing is to be sold but the ng it, title, and interest of the defendant in the property described as put up for sale. It would seem that the seller could not, if he wished, sell anything more specific. And it has been decided, with reference to section 258 of the Code, that if the judgment-creditor makes a mistake and puts up for sale the property of an entire stranger, and the purchaser concludes the purchase under that mistake, he cannot, when ousted by the true owner, recover his purchasemoney, but that the judgment-creditor who has sold him nothing is entitled to keep the money. The combination of these two rules seems calculated to introduce a speculative character into execution sales, which must be very damaging to the property sold. We understand that in fact it is very common for land to be sold at an undervalue at such sales. To avoid this
