JUDGMENT

1. This appeal arises out of a suit brought by the first respondent, the Gorakhpur Bank, Limited, for a declaration that it has a charge on the amount of a fixed deposit standing to the credit of the second respondent, Majid Husain Khan, in the Kayastha Trading and Banking Corporation, Limited. The facts are that in May 1910 Majid Husain Khan deposited Rs. 8,700 with the Kayastha Trading and Banking Corporation for three years to bear interest at the rate of Rs. 7 per cent per annum : . A receipt in the ordinary form was issued to him containing in the margin the words "not transferable". Majid Husain Khan in 1911 borrowed Rs. 4,650 from the Gorakhpur Bank, Limited, and on that occasion wrote to the Manager of that Bank a letter which is set out in the judgment of the lower Appellate Court. It purports to authorise the Bank in case the loan was not re-paid to recover the amount from the sum for the time being standing in Majid Husain Khan's name in fixed deposit account with the Kayastha Trading and Banking Corporation, Limited. .The letter sets out the date and number of the fixed deposit receipt and it is found, as a fact, that Majid Husain Khan made over the receipt to the Gorakhpur Bank. On the same day the Grorakhpur Bank wrote to the Manager of the Kayastha Trading and Banking Corporation a letter giving notice that they had a charge on the fixed deposit. The Manager of the latter replied by a letter of the same date as follows : "Dear Sir,--With reference to your (letter) of the 8th instant, we beg to let you know that Majid Husain Khan of Begpur has got only Rs. 5,877 out of his deposit with us. So we have noted your lien on that amount only." From this it appears that a portion of the sum deposited had been withdrawn. In May 1912, that is a year later, the defendants-appellants obtained a decree against Majid Husain Khan in the execution of which they caused the balance at the fixed deposit to be attached. The Gorakhpur Bank having come to know of this filed objections. The objections were summarily disallowed and the present suit was then instituted. The Court of first instance held that the Gorakhpur Bank had no charge upon the amount under attachment. The Subordinate Judge was apparently of opinion that no one could have a charge on such a deposit unless he was in possession of it. On appeal the Additional Judge, Gorakhpur, reversed this decision and held that a valid charge on the fixed deposit had been created in favour of the Gorakhpur Bank. In second appeal it is again contended that it was impossible for the Gorakhpur Bank to have a charge on this fixed deposit as it was not in possession of the money, and we were referred to the decision of the Privy Council in Aga Mahomed Jaffer Bindanini v. Koolsom Beebee. It appears to us that that case has no bearing whatever on the present case. In that case some fixed deposit receipts had been handed over by a man to his wife shortly before he died. After his death she claimed to be entitled to the amounts mentioned in the receipts. It was held that it was a case of an incomplete gift, that the effect of handing over the receipts was not to transfer the debts to the wife, that she had acquired no title to them, and that at most the evidence showed that the testator had intended to make a formal transfer of the deposits to his wife but had died before he was able to do so. In the present case we can see no reason why it should not be held that there was what would be called in England an equitable assignment by way of charge of the amount of the fixed deposit to the Gorakhpur Bank. The circumstance that the fixed deposit receipt bare the words, "Not transferable", is immaterial, because it is not suggested that any charge on the money is claimed by the Kayastha Trading and Banking Corporation and the latter distinctly recognised the right of the Gorakhpur Bank to a charge on the balance of the deposit. It has been held in many cases that the form of an assignment