law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  48.Execution barred in certain cases .-
  (1) Where an application to execute a decree not being a decree
  
  shall be made, no order for the execution of the same decree shall be made upon
  
  any fresh application presented after the expiration of twelve{ For certain
  
  purposes in parts of U.P., read "six"-vide the U.P.Regulation of
  
  Agricultural Credit Act, 1940 (U.P 14 of 1940), s.9.} years from-
  (a) the date of the decree sought to be
  
  executed, or,
  (b) where the decree or any subsequent order
  
  directs any payment of money or the delivery of any property to be made at a
  
  certain date or at recurring periods, the date of the default in making the
  
  payment or delivery in respect of which the applicant seeks to execute the
  
  decree.
  (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed.-
  (a) to preclude the Court from ordering the
  
  execution of a decree upon an application presented after the expiration of the
  
  said term of twelve years, where the judgment-debtor has, by fraud or force,
  
  prevented the execution of the decree at some time within twelve y ears
  
  immediately before the date of the application ; or
  (b) to limit or otherwise affect the operation
  
  of article {Subs, by Act 34 of 1940, s.3, for "180 of the Second Schedule
  
  to the Indian Limitation Act, 1877".} [183 of the First Schedule to the
  
  Indian Limitation Act, 1908].9 of 1908.