55. Procedure for attachment or property belonging to judgement-debtor.

(a) the necessary wearing appeal, cooking vessels, beds and bedding of the judgement-debtor, his wife and children, and such personal ornaments as, in accordance with religious usages, cannot be parted with by any woman;
(b) tools of artisans and where the judgement- debtor is an agriculturist his implement of husbandry and such cattle and seed grains as may, in the opinion of the Court, be necessary to enable him to earn his livelihood as such;
(c) books of account;
(d) a mere right to sue for damages;
(e) any right of personal service;
(f) stipends and gratuities allowed to pensioners of the Government or payable out of any service Family pension Fund notified in' this behalf in the official Gazetted by the Central Government or State Government, as the case may be, and Political Pension;
(g) allowances (Being less than salary) of any public officer or of any employee of a railway company or local authority while absent from duty;
(h) the salary of any such public officer or employee as is referred to in Clause (g) to the extent of the first hundred rupees and one half the remainder of such salary or allowances:
(i) any allowance forming part of the emoluments of any public officer or employee as is referred to in (g) above, which the appropriate Government may by notification declare to be exempt from attachment and any subsistence grant or allowance, to any such person while under suspension;
(j) the pay and allowances of person to whom the Indian Army Act, 1950, applies for any person other than Commissioned Officers to whom the Indian navy (Discipline) Act, 1934, applies;
(k) all compulsory deposits and other sums in or derived from any fund to which the Provident Funds Act, 1925, for the time being applies in so far as they are declared by the said Act not to be liable to attachment;
(l) not more than one third of the wages of the labourers and domestic servants whether payable in money or in kind;
(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 any law in force to be exempted from liability to attachment or sale in execution of a decree; and where the judgement-debtor is a person liable for the payment of land revenue any movable property, which under any law for the time being applicable to him, is exempted from sale for the recovery of an arrear of such revenue.
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