Chandrasekhara Aiyer, J. — This appeal, preferred from the decree of the Bombay High Court in Appeal No. 281 of 1947, raises the question whether an execution application seeking to execute a final decree, passed by the 1st Class Subordinate Judges Court at Poona, on 6.12.1932, for a sum of Rs. 1,24,215 and odd, is barred by limitation. The decree was made in a suit for dissolution of a partnership and the taking of accounts.

2. The execution application was filed on 4th October, 1946, and the amount stated to be due under the decree on that date was Rs. 2,30,986 and odd. The previous Exn. Appln. No. 946 of 1940 filed in the Court of the 1st Class Sub-Judge Sholapur, to which the decree had been transferred for execution, was made on 24th June, 1940. It was dismissed on 9th Septem-ber, 1940 for non-prosecution.

3. It would thus be seen that the present application was filed after the lapse of 12 years from the date of the final decree and three years from, the date of the final order on the previous application. To surmount the bar of limitation, the decree-holder, who is the appellant before us, raised four contentions : firstly, that the final decree, which provided that the plaint

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