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Section 57 CPC — Subsistence-allowance

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Official PDF page 55

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57. Subsistence-allowance.—The State Government may fix scales, graduated according to rank, race and nationality, of monthly allowances payable for the subsistence of judgment-debtors.

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