Acquired, the expression 'acquired' should be taken to be a reference to 'acquisition' as understood in Public International Law. If there were any public notification, assertion or declaration by which the Government of this country had declared a territory as part and parcel of the territory of India, the Courts would be bound to recognise an 'acquisition' as having taken place, with the consequence that that territory would be part of the territory of the Union within Art. 1(3)(c), N. Masthan Sahib v. Chief Commr., AIR 1963 SC 533 (538). [Constitution of India, Art. 1(3)(c)]
Acquired, includes vesting of property in govern-ment by statutory process. But unless such statutory acquisition of a part of the mortgaged property by Government is in the character of a mortgage money even proportionately, State of Kerala v. Koliyat Estates, (1999) 8 SCC 419.