CPC 1908 § 60 — Property liable to attachment and sale in execution of decree

Statutory text (English)

(1) The following
property is liable to attachment and sale in execution of a decree, namely, lands, houses or other
buildings, goods, money, bank-notes, cheques, bills of exchange, hundis, promissory notes,
Government securities, bonds or other securities for money, debts, shares in a corporation and, save as
hereinafter mentioned, all other saleable property, moveable or immoveable, belonging to the
judgment-debtor or over which, or the profits of which, he has a disposing power which he may
exercise for his own benefit, whether the same be held in the name of the judgment-debtor or by
another person in trust for him or on his behalf:

Provided that the following particulars shall not be liable to such attachment or sale, namely:—
(a) the necessary wearing-apparel, cooking vessels, beds and bedding of the
judgment-debtor, his wife and children, and such personal ornaments as, in
accordance with religious usage, cannot be parted with by any woman ;
(b) tools of artisans, and, where the judgment-debtor is an agriculturist, his
implements of husbandry and such cattle and seed-grain as may, in the opinion
of the Court, be necessary to enable him to earn his livelihood as such, and such
portion of agricultural produce or of any class of agricultural produce as may
have been declared to be free from liability under the provisions of the next
following section;
(c) houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the land
immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) belonging
to an agriculturist and occupied by him ;
(d) books of account ;
(e) a mere right to sue for damages ;
(f) any right of personal service ;
(g) stipends and gratuities allowed to 2[pensioners of the Government], or payable
out of any service family pension fund notified 3 in the 4[official Gazette] by
4[the 5[Federal Government] or the Provincial Government] in this behalf, and
political pensions ;
1[(h) the wages of labourers and domestic servants, whether payable in money or in
kind ; 2[* * *] ;
2[(i) salary to the extent of the first hundred rupees and one-half of the remainder:

Provided that where such salary is the salary of a 3[servant of the State] or a servant of
a railway 4[*] or local authority, and the whole or any part of the portion of
such salary liable to attachment has been under attachment, whether
continuously or intermittently for a total period of twenty-four months, such
portion shall be exempt from attachment until the expiry of a further period of
twelve months and, where such attachment has been made in execution of one
and the same decree, shall be finally exempt from attachment in execution of
that decree ;]]
(j) the pay and allowances of persons to whom the 5[ 6[Pakistan Army Act, 1952
(XXXIX of 1952)], 7[* * *] applies],8[or of persons other than commissioned
officers to whom the 9[Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961, ( XXXV of 1961 ),
applies] ;
(k) all compulsory deposits and other sums in or derived from any fund to which
the Provident Funds Act, 1[1925 (XIX of 1925 )], for the time being applies in
so far as they are declared by the said Act not to be liable to attachment;
1[(l) any allowance forming part of the emoluments of any 3[servant of the State] or
of any servant of a railway 4[*] or local authority which the 10[appropriate
Government] may by notification 11 in the 13[official Gazette] declare to be
exempt from attachment, and any subsistence grant or allowance made to 13[any
such servant] while under suspension ;]
(m) an expectancy of succession by survivorship or other merely contingent or
possible right or interest ;
(n) a right to future maintenance ;
(o) any allowance declared by 14[any Pakistan law] to be exempt from liability to
attachment or sale in execution of a decree ; and
(p) where the judgment-debtor is a person liable for the payment of land-revenue,
any moveable property which, under any law for the time being applicable to
him, is exempt from sale for the recovery of an arrear of such revenue.
1[
Explanation 1].—The particulars mentioned in clauses (g), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (o) are exempt
from attachment or sale whether before or after they are actually payable, 1[and in the case of salary
other than salary of a 2[servant of the State] or a servant of a railway 3[*] or local authority the
attachable portion thereof is exempt from attachment until it is actually payable].
1[
Explanation 2.— In clauses (h) and (i), “salary” means the total monthly emoluments,
excluding any allowance declared exempt from attachment under the provisions of clause (l), derived
by a person from his employment whether on duty or on leave.]
4[
Explanation 3.— In clause (l) “appropriate Government” means—
(i) as respects any 5[person] in the service of the 6[Federal Government], or any
servant 6[of railway or] 3[* * *] of a cantonment authority or of the port authority
of a major port, the 6[Federal Government] ;
7[* * * * * * *]
(iii) as respects any other 2[servant of the State] or a servant of any 8[* * * ] local
authority, the Provincial Government.]

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed—
9[*] to exempt houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the lands
immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) from attachment or sale in
execution of decrees for rent of any such house, building, site or land, [*]3
9[* * * * * * *]

Source and verification

Source citation: CPC (Act V of 1908) s.60: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908' (Act No. V of 1908; portal status 'Under Review'; reflects amendments through the CPC (Amendment) Act, 2023 incl. inserted s.159), p. 31, 32, 33, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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