50. Legal representative.—(1) Where a judgment-debtor dies before the decree has been fully satisfied, the holder of the decree may apply to the Court which passed it to execute the same against the legal representative of the deceased.
(2) Where the decree is executed against such legal representative, he shall be liable only to the extent of the property of the deceased which has come to his hands and has not been duly disposed of; and, for the purpose of ascertaining such liability, the Court executing the decree may, of its own motion or on the application of the decree-holder, compel such legal representative to produce such accounts as it thinks fit.
Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.
Where a judgment-debtor dies before the decree has been fully satisfied, the decree-holder may apply to the Court which passed it to execute the decree against the deceased's legal representative. The representative is liable only to the extent of the deceased's property that has come to his hands and has not been duly disposed of. To work out that liability, the Court may, on its own motion or the decree-holder's application, compel him to produce such accounts as it thinks fit.
