Summarize the following court judgment. vil Appeals Nos. 568 and 757 of 1953. Appeals from the judgment and order dated October 10	 1960. of the Madhya Pradesh High Court	 Indore Bench	 Indore	 in Civil Miscellaneous Appeals Nos. 33 of 1958 and 81 and 82 of 1957. G.S. Pathak	 B. Dutta	 1. B. Dadachanji	 O.C. Mathur and Ravinder Narain	 for the appellant. B.R.L. lyengar	 S.K. Mehta and K.L. Mehta	 for the respondent. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Bachawat	 J. The appellant is the Ruler of the former Indian State of Jaora. He had money dealings with the respondent. By an agreement dated February 23	 1957. the appellant and the respondent agreed to refer their disputes regarding those dealings to the arbitration of Lala Durgashankar. On the same date	 the arbitrator made an award. By this award	 the arbitrator found that a sum of Rs. 1	60	000 was due to the respondent from the appellant	 and .directed that this sum would be payable in eight quarterly installments	 the first four installments to be of Rs. 21	000 each and the next four instalments to be of Rs. 19	000 each	 the amount of interest would be payable in another quarterly instalment	 the respondent would have a first charge on the sums receivable by the appellant from the Government of India as privy purse	 and would be entitled to realise those sums under a letter of authority issued by the appellant	 and if the Government would raise any objection to the payment	 the respondent would have the right to realise the dues from the personal property of the appellant. Some the items of the loans in respect of which the award was made were secured on lands and ornaments. The award therefore provided: "The documents relating to debts obtained on lands and ornaments shall remain as before till the payment of the debts and they shall also remain as securities till then	 and the Nawab Sahab shall have no right to transfer the land. " The award was signed by the arbitrator and also by the appellant and the respondent. 203 On the same day	 the arbitrator filed the award in the Court of the District Judge	 Ratlam. Notice of filing of the award under section 14 of the Indian was duly served on the parties. On March 9	 1957	 an agent of the appellant filed a written submission accepting the award and requesting the Court to pass a decree in terms of the award. But on the same day	 an application was made by another agent of the appellant intimating that steps would be taken for setting aside the award. The Court fixed March 23	 1957 for firing the objection. The time was subsequently extended up to April 2	 1957. On that day	 an application was filed on behalf of the appellant praying for setting aside the award. But on April 5	 1957	 an application was filed on behalf of the appellant withdrawing the objections and asking the Court to pass a decree in terms of the award	 subject to the modification that the amount of the award would be payable in quarterly instalments of Rs. 13	000 each. This application was signed by the respondent in token of his consent to the modification of the amount of the instalments. On April 30	 1957. the arbitrator filed the relevant papers. On the same day	 an agent of the appellant filed an application praying for setting aside the compromise and the award. The case was fixed for hearing on June 19. 1957. On that date. the Court received by registered post an application from the appellant withdrawing the objections and praying for an order in accordance with the compromise application filed on April 5. 1957. In the circumstances	 on June 19. 1957	 the Court recorded the compromise and passed a decree in terms of the award as modified by the compromise. The appellant filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court Appeal No. 81 of 1957 under section 39 of the Indian against the order dated June 19. 1957 treating it as an order refusing to set aside the award. The appellant also filed Appeal No. 82 of 1957 under 0.43(1)(m) of the Code of Civil Procedure against the order dated June 19	 1957 recording the compromise. In the meantime. the respondent started Execution Case No. 5 of 1957. and on September 9. 1957 obtained an ex parte order for transfer of the decree to the Court of the District Judge. Delhi. On November 1.1957. the Central Government gave a certificate under s 86(3) read with section 8713 of the Code of Civil Procedure. 1908 cpnsenting to the execution of the decree against the properties of the appellant. On November 8	 1957. the District Judge. Delhi passed a prohibitory order under O. 21. r. 46 of the Code of Civil Procedure in respect of sums payable to the appellant on account of the privy purse. By letter dated December 26. 1957	 the Central Government informed the appellant of the prohibitory order. On January 8	 1958	 the appellant applied to the Court of the District Judge. Ratlam praying for vacating the order of transfer of the decree and for cancellation of the certificate issued under O. 21. r. 6(b) of the Code of Civil Procedure. By order dated March 15	 1958. the Court recalled the decree and cancelled the certificate as prayed for. on the ground that the amount receivable by the appel 204 lant on account of his privy purse was not attachable. The respondent preferred Appeal No. 33 of 1958 before the High Court against order. By another order dated January 7	 1959	 the District Judge	 Ratlam dismissed certain objections of the appellant filed in Execution Case No. 2 of 1958. We are informed that the appellant flied before the High Court Appeal No. 13 of 1959 from this order. Appeals Nos. 81 and 82 of 1957	 33 of 1958 and 13 of 1959 were heard and disposed of by the High Court by a common judgment on October 10	 1960. The High Court dismissed Appeals Nos. 81 and 82 of 1957 and 13 of 1959 preferred by the appellant and allowed Appeal No. 33 of 1958 preferred by the respondent. The appellant has referred to this Court Civil Appeal No. 568 of 1963 against the order of the High Court passed in Appeal No. 33 of 1958. He has also preferred Civil Appeal No. 767 of 1963 from the order of the High Court passed in Appeals Nos. 81 and 82 of 1957. Civil Appeals Nos. 568 and 767 of 1963 were heard together	 and are being disposed of by this common judgment. On behalf of the appellant	 Mr. Pathak raised three contentions only. He argued that: (1) the award affected immovable property of the value of more than Rs. 100	 and as it was not registered	 no decree could be passed in terms of the award; (2)the proceedings under section 14 of the Indian were incompetent in the absence of the consent of the Central Government under section 86(1) read with section 87B	 Code of Civil Procedure	 and the decree passed in those proceedings is without jurisdiction and null and void; and (3) the amount receivable by the appellant from the Central Government as his privy purse is a political pension within the meaning of section 60(1)(g)	 Code of Civil Procedure	 and is not liable to attachment or sale in execution of the .decree. These contentions are disputed by Mr. Iyengar on behalf of the respondent. The first two contentions of Mr. Pathak arise in Civil Appeal No. 767 of 1963 and the third contention arises in Civil Appeal No. 568 of 1963. The first contention raised by Mr. Pathak must be rejected. The award stated that the existing documents relating to. debts obtained on lands would remain as before	 and they would remain as securities till payment of the debts and the appellant would have no right to transfer the land. This portion of the award stated an existing fact. It did not create	 or of its own force declare any interest in any immovable property. Consequently	 the document did not come within the purview of section 17 of the Indian 	 and was not required to be registered. The second contention of Mr. Pathak raises questions of construction of sections 86 and 87B of the Code of Civil Procedure. By reason of section 86(1) read with section 87B	 no Ruler of any former Indian State "may be sued in any Court otherwise competent to try the suit except with the consent of the Central Government. " Section 205 86(2) provides that the requisite consent may be given with respect to a specified suit or with respect to several specified suits or with respect to all suits of any specified class or classes	 Section 86 plainly deals with a special class of suits	 and this conclusion is reinforced by the heading of Part IV	 "Suit in Particular Cases"	 in which sections 86 and 87B appear. Order 4	 rule 1	 Code of Civil Procedure provides that every suit shall be instituted by presenting a plaint to the Court or such other officer as it appoints in this behalf. In the context of section 176 of the Government of India Act	 1935	 Mahajan and Mukherjea	 observed that the expression "sue" means the "enforcement of a claim or civil right by means of legal proceedings"	 see Province Bombay v .K.S. Advani and others(1). But in the context of the Indian Limitation Act	 1908	 Lord Russell of Killowen observed in Hansraj Gupta vs Official Liquidator	 Dehra Dun Mussorrie Electric Tramway Co.(2): "The word 'suit ' ordinarily means	 and apart from some context must be taken to mean	 a civil proceeding instituted by the presentation of a plaint." And construing section 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure	 Shah	 J. speaking on behalf of this Court observed in Bhagwat Singh vs State Rajasthan(3): "The appellant is recognised under article 366(22) of the Constitution as a Ruler of an Indian State	 but section 86 in terms protects a Ruler from being 'sued ' and not against the institution of any other proceeding which is not in the nature of a suit. A proceeding which does not commence with a plaint or petition in the nature of plaint	 or where the claim is not in respect of dispute ordinarily triable in a Civil Court	 would prima facie not be regarded as falling within section 86	 Code of Civil Procedure. " Now	 a proceeding under section 14 read with section 17 of the Indian for the passing of a judgment and decree on an award does not commence with a plaint or a petition in the nature of a plaint	 and cannot be regarded as a suit and the parties to whom the notice of the filing of the award is given under section 14(2) cannot be regarded as "sued in any Court otherwise competent to try the suit"	 within the meaning of section 86(1) read with section 87B	 Code of Civil Procedure. Accordingly	 the institution of this proceeding against the Ruler of a former Indian State is not barred by section 86(1) read with section 87B. Section 141	 Code of Civil Procedure does not attract the provisions of section 86(1) read with section 87B to the proceedings under section 14 of the Indian . Section 86(1) read with section 87B confers upon the Rulers of former Indian States substantive rights of im (1)[1950] S.C.R. 621	 at pp. 661	 (2)[1932] L.R. I.A.13	19. (3) ; at pp. 445	 446. 206 munity from suits. Section 141 makes applicable to other proceedings only those provisions of the Code which deal with procedure and not those which deal with substantive rights. Nor does section 41(a) of the Indian carry the matter any further. By that section	 the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure	 1908 are made applicable to all proceedings before the Court under the Act. Now	 by its own language section 86(1) applies to suits only	 and section 141	 Code of Civil Procedure does not attract the provisions of section 86(1) to proceedings other than suits. Accordingly	 by the conjoint application of section 41(a)of the Indian and sections 86(1) and 141 of the Code of Civil Procedure	 the provisions of section 86(1) are not attracted to a proceeding under section 14 of the Indian . It follows that the Court was competent to entertain the proceedings under section 14 of the Indian and to pass a decree against the appellant in those proceedings	 though no consent to the institution of those proceedings had been given by the Central Government. A sovereign foreign State and a Ruler of such State may enjoy a wider immunity from legal proceedings other than suits under the rules of International Law recognised by our Courts	 but the appellant is not now a Ruler of a sovereign State	 and cannot claim immunity from proceedings other than suits. The second contention of Mr. Pathak must	 therefore	 be rejected. The third contention of Mr. Pathak raises the question whether an amount payable to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse is a political pension within the meaning of section 60(1)(g)	 Code of Civil Procedure. The word "pension" in section 60(1)(g)	 Code of Civil Procedure implies periodical payments of money by the Government to the pensioner. See Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad vs Karnani 	Industrial Bank Ltd.(1) And in Bishambhar Nath vs Nawab Imdad Ali Khan(2)	 Lord Watson observed: "A pension which the Government of India has given a guarantee that it will pay	 by a treaty obligation contracted with another sovereign power	 appears to their Lordships to be	 in the strictest sense	 a political pension. The obligation to pay	 as well as the actual payment of the pension	 must	 in such circumstances	 be ascribed to reasons of State policy. " Now	 the history of the integration and the ultimate absorption of the Indian States and of the guarantee for payment of periodical sums as privy purse to the Rulers of the former Indian States are well known. Formerly Indian States were semi sovereign vassal States under the suzerainty of the British Crown. With the declaration of Independence	 the paramountly of the British Crown lapsed as from August 15	 1947	 and the Rulers of Indian States 207 became politically independent sovereigns. The Indian States parted with their sovereignty in successive stages	 firstly on accession to the	 Dominion of India	 secondly on integration of the States into sizable administrative units and on closer accession to the Dominion of India	 and finally on adoption of the Constitution of India and extinction of the separate existence of the States and Unions of States. During the second phase of this political absorption of the States	 the Rulers of the Madhya Bharat States including the Ruler of Jaora State entered into a Covenant on April 22	 1948 for the formation of the United State of Gwalior	 Indore and Malwa (Madhya Bharat). By article II of the Covenant	 the Covenanting States agreed to unite and integrate their territories into one State. Article VI provided that the Ruler of each Covenanting State shall not later than July 1	 1948 make over the administration of the State to the Rajpramukh and thereupon all rights	 authority and jurisdiction belonging to the Ruler and appertaining or incidental to the Government of the State would vest in the United . State of Madhya Bharat. Article XI(1) provided that "the Ruler of each Covenanting State shall be entitled to receive annually from the revenues of the United State for his privy purse the amount specified against that Covenanting State in Schedule I." In Sch. I	 a sum of Rs. 1	75	000 was specified against the State of Jaora. Article XI(2) provided that the amount of the privy purse was intended to cover all the expenses of the Ruler and his family including expenses of the residence	 marriage and other ceremonies and neither be increased nor reduced for any reason whatsoever. Article XI(3) provided that the Rajpramukh would cause the amount to be paid to the Ruler in four equal instalments at the beginning of each quarter in advance. Article XI(4) provided that the amount would be free of alI taxes whether imposed by the Government of the United State or by the Government of India. Article XIII of the Covenant secured to the Ruler of each Covenanting State all personal privileges	 dignities and titles then enjoyed by them. Article XIV guaranteed the succession	 according to law and custom	 to the gadding of each Covenanting State and to the personal rights	 privileges	 dignities and titles of the Ruler. The Covenant was signed by all the Rulers of the Covenanting States. At the foot of the Covenant	 it was stated that "The Government of India hereby concur in the above Covenant and guarantee all its provisions." In confirmation of this consent and guarantee	 the Covenant was signed by a Secretary to the Government of India. On the coming into force of the Constitution of India	 the territories of Madhya Bharat became an integral part of India. Article 291 of the Constitution provided: "Where under any covenant or agreement entered into by the Ruler of any Indian State before the commencement of this Constitution	 the payment of any sums	 free 208 of tax	 has been guaranteed or assured by the Government of the Dominion of India to any Ruler of such State as privy purse: (a) such sums shall be charged on	 and paid out of	 the Consolidated Fund of India; and (b) the sums so paid to any Ruler shall be exempt from all taxes on income." In view of the guarantee by the Government of the Dominion of India to the Ruler of Jaora State in the Covenant for the formation of the United State of Madhya Bharat	 the payment of the sums specified in the covenant as privy purse to the Ruler became charged on the Consolidated Fund of India	 and became payable to him free from all taxes on income. Article 362 provides that in the exercise of the legislative and executive powers	 due regard shall be had to the guarantee given in any such covenant as is referred to in article 291 with respect to the personal rights	 privileges and dignities of the Ruler of an Indian State. Article 363(1) provides	 that notwithstanding anything contained in the Constitution	 the Courts would have no jurisdiction in any dispute arising	 out of any provision in any covenant entered into by any Ruler of an Indian State to which the Government of the 'Dominion of India was a party	 or in any dispute in respect of any right accruing under or any liability or obligation arising out of any of the provisions of the Constitution relating to any such covenant. Article 366(22) provides that the expression "Ruler" in relation to an Indian State means a person by whom the covenant referred to in article 299(1) was entered into and who for the time being is recognised by the President as the Ruler of the State	 and includes any person who for the time being is recognised by the President as the successor of such Ruler. Now	 the Covenant entered into by the Rulers of Madhya Bharat States was a treaty entered into by the Rulers of independent States by which they gave up their sovereignty over their respective territories and vested it in the new United State of Madhya Bharat. The Covenant was an act of State	 and any violation of its terms cannot form the subject of any action in any municipal courts. The guarantee given by the Government of India was in the nature of a treaty obligation contracted with the sovereign Rulers of Indian States and cannot be enforced by action in municipal courts. Its sanction is political and not legal. On the coming into force of the Constitution of India	 the guarantee for the payment of periodical sums as privy purse is continued by article 291 of the Constitution	 but its essential political character is preserved by article 363 of the Constitution	 and the obligation under this guarantee cannot be enforced in any municipal court. Moreover	 if the President refuses to recognise the person by whom the covenant was entered into as the Ruler of the State	 he would not be entitled to the amount payable as privy purse under article 291. 209 Now	 the periodical payment of money by the Government to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse on political considerations and under political sanctions and not under a right legally enforceable in any municipal court is strictly a political pension within the meaning of section 60(1)(g) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The use of the expression "privy purse" instead of the expression "pension" is due to historical reasons. The privy purse satisfies all the essential characteristics of a political pension	 and as such	 is protected from execution under section 60(1)(g)	 Code of Civil Procedure. Moreover	 an amount of the privy purse receivable from the Government cannot be said to be a debt or other property over which or the proceeds of which he has disposing power within the main part of section 60(1)	Code of Civil Procedure. It follows that the third contention of Mr. Pathak must be accepted	 and it must be held that the amounts of the privy purse are not liable to attachment or sale in execution of the respondent 's decree. The third contention is raised in Civil Appeal No. 568 of 1963 arising out of Appeal No. 33 of 1958. It follows that Civil Appeal No. 568 of 1963 must be allowed. All the contentions raised in Civil Appeal No. 767 of 1963 arising from Appeals Nos. 81 and 82 of 1957 fail	 and accordingly this appeal must be dismissed. In the result	 Civil Appeal No. 568 of 1963 is allowed	 the order of the High Court in Appeal No. 33 of 1958 is set aside and the order of the District Judge dated March 15	 1958 is restored with costs in this Court only. Civil Appeal No. 767 of 1963 is dismissed with costs. Appeal 568 of 1963 allowed. Appeal 767 of 1963 dismissed.

The appellant	 who was a Ruler of a former Indian State	 had money dealings with the respondent. They referred their disputes to an arbitrator who made his award directing the appellant to pay. a certain sum of money	 in installments. The award also stated that the existing documents relating to debts on lands would remain as before and would remain as securities till the payment of debts The arbitrator filed the award into court and the court	 after notice to the parties passed a decree in terms of a compromise modifying the award. The respondent started execution proceedings and the court passed a prohibitory order under O.XXI	 r. 46 of the Civil Procedure Code	 1908	 in respect of the sums payable to the appellant by the Central Government on account of the privy purse; but on the application of the appellant	 that order was vacated. The appellant and respondent filed appeals in the High COurt	 against the various orders	 and the High Court decided all the appeals against the appellant. In the appeal to the Supreme Court	 it was contended that	 (i) as the award affected immovable property of the value of more than Rs. 100	 and was not registered	 a decree could not be passed in terms the award	 (ii) the proceedings under the Indian 	 were incompetent in the absence of the consent of the Central Government under sections 86(1) and 87B of the Code	 and therefore the decree passed in those proceedings was without jurisdiction and void and (iii) the amount receivable by the appellant as his privy purse was a political pension within the meaning of section 60(1)(g) of the Code	 and not liable to attachment or sale in execution of a decree. HELD: (i)The award did not create or of its own force declare any interest in any immovable property and since it did not come within the purview of section 17 of the 	 was not required to be registered. [(204 H] (ii) A proceeding under section 14 read with section 17 of the 	 for the passing of a judgment and decree on an award	 does not commence with a plaint or a petition in the nature of a plaint	 and cannot be regarded as a suit and the parties to whom the notice of the filing of the award is given under section 14(2) cannot be regarded as "sued in any Court otherwise competent to try the suit" within the meaning of section 86.(1) read with section 87B of the Code. Neither are those provisions of the Code attracted by reason of section 41(a) of the or section 141 of the Code. It follows that the COurt was competent to entertain the proceedings under section 14 of the and pass a decree in those proceedings though no consent to the institution of the proceedings had been given by the Central Government. [205 G H; 206 B D] 202 (iii) The amounts of the privy purse of the appellant were not liable to attachment or sale in execution of the respondent 's decree. [209 C D] The periodical payment of money by the Government to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse on political considerations and under political sanctions and not under a right legally enforceable in any municipal court is strictly a political pension within the meaning of section 60(1)(g) of the Code. The privy purse satisfies all the essential characteristics of a political pension	 and as such is protected from execution under section 60(1) (g). [209 A C]