Appointment of Receivers (Order XV)

Two brothers inherit a busy sweet shop in Dadar. One of them locks the other out, pockets the daily cash, and lets the stock rot. The other files a suit, but a suit can take years, and by then there may be no shop left to win. What can a court do today, while the case is still pending, to keep the property safe for whoever turns out to be right? The Code of Civil Procedure answers with a court-appointed manager called a receiver.

In two minutes

A receiver is an officer of the court, appointed under Order XL where it is just and convenient, to take charge of disputed property, preserve it and account for it, before or after the decree.

The rest of this chapter

The full explanation, the cheat sheet, every previous-year question at every mark weight, the quiz and the answer skeletons are part of Civil Procedure Code 1908 and Limitation Act 1963 on LexBlox Semester. Sign in to unlock the subject, or read Module 1 of Legal Language and Writing free.