section 25
Bar to new suits and applications and suspension of pending suits and applications
The Punjab Relief of Indebtedness Act, 1934Finance193440 sections8 chapters
Part IV Part IV
Statutory text
- (1) When an application has been made to a board under section 9 or section 23 no civil court shall entertain any new suit or other proceeding brought for the recovery of any debt covered by such application and any suit or other proceedings pending before a civil court in respect of any such debt shall be suspended until the board has dismissed the application or an agreement has been made under section 17.
- (2) When any execution proceeding pending before a civil court is suspended under sub-section (1), and any animal has been attached and made over to suparddar in connection with such the judgment-debtor shall be entitled to the return of such animal but shall not be competent to sell or in any way part with the ownership of any animal so attached during the suspension of such proceeding; and if the judgment-debtor has been committed to a civil prison in connection with such proceedings he shall be released forthwith.
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