ISSUE:
Whether the court, in a partition suit, has the power to pass a decree with respect to a property that was not mentioned in the plaint but later on mentioned in the written statement?
Whether a court can amend and rectify a decree is it feels that it has committed an error?
RULE:
A decree has been defined in section 2(2) as the formal expression of an adjudication which conclusively determines the right of parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy.
A decree can be preliminary or final or partly preliminary and partly final.