ORDER :- This civil revision petition raises important questions of law as to whether a receiver can claim from the estate amounts advanced and paid by him during the course of his administration, and claim contemporaneously a lien over the liquid assets of the estate, so as to take preference over the mortgage decree-holder at whose instance the estate was being administered by him, and whether by necessity the receiver should file a suit to realise such amounts advanced by him, even though the advancement of such moneys is not in question, and incidentally whether the claim would be barred by limitation.

2. The petitioner who is the receiver appointed in the lower court, was so appointed at the instance of the plaintiff in the suit who had a mortgage security over a press known as the Rajah Power Press, Royapettah. The receiver was allowed certain remuneration for his management and running of the press. He was in actual management of the same between 15-4-1961 till. 31-12-1963, and the final accounts relating to the same were passed on 1-2-1965. During such running of the press by him. he is said to have advanced moneys from and out of his own pocket for necessities of the busine

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