Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Chapter II: Execution General · Arrest and detention
Section 57: Subsistence-allowance
The State Government may fix scales, graduated according to rank, race and nationality, of monthly allowances payable for the subsistence of judgment-debtors.
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Supreme Court judgments citing the section 57
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Abdul Rejak Laskar v. Mafizur Rahman & Ors.
The High Court held that the s.154(1)(e) of the the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 bars the civil court from exercising its jurisdiction; whether the High Court committed any error in taking view that the suit…