Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
52.Enforcement of decree against legal representative.-
(1) Where a decree is passed against a party as the legal
representative of a deceased person, and the decree is for the payment of money
out of the property if the deceased, it may be executed by the attachment and
sale of any such property.
(2) Where no such property remains in the possession of the
judgment-debtor and he fails to satisfy the Court that he has duly applied such
property of the deceased as is proved to have come into his possession, the
decree may be executed against the judgment-debtor to the extent of the
property in respect of which he has failed so to satisfy the Court in the same
manner as if the decree had been against him personally.