CPC Section 62: Seizure of property in dwelling house
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part 2: Execution
62. Seizure of property in dwelling-house.—(1) No person executing any process under this Code directing or authorizing seizure of movable property shall enter any dwelling-house after sunset and before sunrise.
(2) No outer door of a dwelling-house shall be broken open unless such dwelling-house is in the occupancy of the judgment-debtor and he refuses or in any way prevents access thereto, but when the person executing any such process has duly gained access to any dwelling-house, he may break open the door of any room in which he has reason to believe any such property to be.
(3) Where a room in a dwelling-house is in the actual occupancy of a woman who, according to the customs of the country, does not appear in public, the person executing the process shall give notice to such woman that she is at liberty to withdraw; and, after allowing reasonable time for her to withdraw and giving her reasonable facility for withdrawing, he may enter such room for the purpose of seizing the property, using at the same time every precaution, consistent with these provisions, to prevent its clandestine removal.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 36. Application to orders
- 37. Definition of Court which passed a decree
- 38. Court by which decree may be executed
- 39. Transfer of decree
- 40. Transfer of decree to Court in another State
- 41. Result of execution proceedings to be certified
- 42. Powers of Court in executing transferred decree
- 43. Execution of decrees passed by Civil Courts in places to which this Code does not extend
- 44. Execution of decrees passed by Revenue Courts in places to which this Code does not extend
- 44A. Execution of decrees passed by Courts in reciprocating territory
- 45. Execution of decrees outside India
- 46. Precepts
- 47. Questions to be determined by the Court executing decree
- 48. [Repealed.]
- 49. Transferee
- 50. Legal representative
- 51. Powers of Court to enforce execution
- 52. Enforcement of decree against legal representative
- 53. Liability of ancestral property
- 54. Partition of estate or separation of share
- 55. Arrest and detention
- 56. Prohibition of arrest or detention of women in execution of decree for money
- 57. Subsistence-allowance
- 58. Detention and release
- 59. Release on ground of illness
- 60. Property liable to attachment and sale in execution of decree
- 61. Partial exemption of agricultural produce
- 63. Property attached in execution of decrees of several Courts
- 64. Private alienation of property after attachment to be void
- 65. Purchaser’s title
- 66. [Repealed.]
- 67. Power for State Government to make rules as to sales of land in execution of decrees for payment
- 68. [Repealed.]
- 69. [Repealed.]
- 70. [Repealed.]
- 71. [Repealed.]
- 72. [Repealed.]
- 73. Proceeds of execution-sale to be rateably distributed among decree-holders
- 74. Resistance to execution