( 1 ) THIS is a plaintiffs appeal. The facts of the ease are that defendant respondent 1, Suraj Bali, filed a suit for foreclosure against the plaintiffs respondents on 20-4-1936. The plaintiffs were sued as minors under the guardianship of their mother Mt. Rukmin, defendant respondent 2. A preliminary decree was passed on 7-7 1936. A final decree was obtained on 19. 3. 1938, and in execution of the final decree possession of the property was given to defendant 1 on 14-5-1938. In 1943 the plaintiffs filed a suit for setting aside this final decree for foreclosure on various grounds. One of them was that Ram Prasad plaintiff at the time of the filing of the suit for foreclosure was a major and not a minor and that the decree in these circumstances was a nullity against him. The other plaintiffs, who were minors at the time of the present suit and the suit for closure, alleged that their guardian had been grossly negligent in the conduct of the suit and so the decree against them was also not binding. It was also said that the final decree for foreclosure could not have been passed in view of the provisions of Section 3, U. P. Temporary postponement of Execution of Decrees Act, X [10] of 1937 and that possession in execution of the decree was wrongly given. The plaintiffs accordingly prayed for delivery of possession over the property and for damages. The trial Court held that the plaintiff Ram Prasad was a major at the time the suit for foreclosure was filed and that the other plaintiffs were properly represented in the suit and were not prejudiced in any way. The Court, however, found that the decree was not binding on Ram Prasad. It also found that possession should not have been given in execution of that decree. The plaintiffs suit was decreed. In appeal the lower appellate Court held that the plaintiff Ram Prasad was in fact a minor at the date of the suit for foreclosure and that none of the minors had been prejudiced in that suit. It was held that Section 3 of Act X [l0] of 1937 was not in fact applicable as delivery of possession as a result of the final decree for foreclosure was not in execution of that decree. The suit was dismissed.

( 2 ) THE main question urged in second appeal was that Section 3, Temporary Postponement of execution of Decrees Act, X [10] of 1937, was applicable and possession could not have therefore been delivered. When the appeal came up for hearing before a learned single Judge of the Court attention was drawn to the decision of a learned single Judge of the late Oudh Chief court in Swami Dayal v. Durga Prasad, 1943 Oudh w. N. 481. It seemed to be the impression at that time that according to this ruling delivery of possession as a result of the decree for foreclosure was not in execution of the decree. The appeal was accordingly referred to a Beech for decision. We have heard the learned counsel and are satisfied that Section 3, Temporary postponement of Execution of Decrees Act, applies only to execution proceedings as held in swami Dayal v. Durga Prasad, 1943 Oudh W. N. 481. Reading the plain language of 3. 3 of the act there can be no other conclusion. There also cannot be the least doubt that the final decree for foreclosure provides for delivery of possession of the property and that order for possession can only be carried out if the aid of the Court is sought in execution. Clearly, therefore, delivery of possession in a final decree for foreclosure is the result of the execution of the decree. In swami Dayal v. Durga Prasad, 1943 Oudh W. N. 481, it has not been held that delivery of possession in a final decree for foreclosure is not in execution of the decree.

( 3 ) NOW that we have Land that delivery of possession was in execution of the decree and that section 3, Temporary Postponement of Execution of Decrees Act, applies to execution proceeding, there cannot be the least doubt that possession could not have been delivered in execution of the decree so long as the Te