CPC Section 118 — Execution of decree before ascertainment of costs

Civil

Summary

If a High Court decides that a decree made in its original civil cases should be carried out before the exact amount of court costs is calculated, the court can order the decree to be enforced immediately, except for the part dealing with costs. That part about costs can only be enforced once the amount is officially determined through a process called taxation.

Official Text

Where any such High Court considers it necessary that a decree passed in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction should be executed before the amount of the costs incurred in the suit can be ascertained by taxation, the Court may order that the decree shall be executed forthwith, except as to so much thereof as relates to the costs; and, as to so much thereof as relates to the costs, that the decree may be executed as soon as the amount of the costs shall be ascertained by taxation.