Important Legal Definitions

A specific judicial direction in a decree for immovable property directing an inquiry to determine the profits that the person in wrongful possession actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received, together with interest, from the date of the suit until delivery of possession.

In a title decree regarding an apartment in South Mumbai, the civil judge passes a preliminary decree under Order XX Rule 12 CPC directing the court commissioner to conduct an inquiry into prevailing commercial rents in the area to calculate the mesne profits payable by the trespasser.