MUNI LAL VERMA, J.

1. The appellant filed Civil Writ Petition No. 1146 of 1966, in this Court against the order of the Financial Commissioner, which was dismissed by a learned Single Judge on November 27, 1970. Against that judgment the appellant filed an appeal under clause 10 of the Letters Patent on December 23, 1970. The Deputy Registrar raised certain objections, including that it was not accompanied by three sets of typed copies of documents as required by Rule 3 of Chapter 2-C of the High Court Rules and Orders, Vol. V, and ordered its return to the learned counsel for the appellant for removing the defects and to refile it within a week. The order for return was passed on December 23, 1970, but it has not been possible to ascertain as to on which date the learned counsel or his clerk took it back from the Court. However, after removing the defects pointed out by the Deputy Registrar, the appeal was refiled on January 30, 1971. No objection was then taken by the Deputy Registrar to its having been refiled after more than a week allowed by him : On February 24, 1971, the appeal was admitted by the Motion Bench without adverting to the question of limitation. On April