{"id":52596,"date":"1910-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1910-04-25T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bandhu-ahir-vs-bisheshar-rai-and-ors-on-26-april-1910"},"modified":"2016-02-29T01:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:23:41","slug":"bandhu-ahir-vs-bisheshar-rai-and-ors-on-26-april-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bandhu-ahir-vs-bisheshar-rai-and-ors-on-26-april-1910","title":{"rendered":"Bandhu Ahir vs Bisheshar Rai And Ors. on 26 April, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bandhu Ahir vs Bisheshar Rai And Ors. on 26 April, 1910<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 6 Ind Cas 704 a<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Griffin<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Griffin<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. This appeal arises out of a suit for pre-emption. The question raised in it is whether the entry in the wajib-ul-arz relied on as proof of a custom is evidence of a custom or of a contract. Both the Courts below have held that the entry in this wajib-ul-arz of 1860 is evidence of a contract and on this ground dismissed the suit. It is admitted that the entry relating to pre-emption in the wajib-ul-arz of 1860 is colourless, i.e., it might be read equally as a memorandum of contract or as a record of custom. This being the case, it would be necessary to hold, following the ruling in Majidan Bibi v. Sheikh Hayatan A.W.N. (1897) 3, that the wajib-ul-arz should be understood as the record of custom. The reason why the Courts below have held otherwise is that there is on the record a wajib-ul-arz of the year 1833, and it is said that the entry in that wajib-ul-arz relating to pre-emption is clearly record not of a custom but of a contract. The reason for this conclusion arrived at by the Court below is that the preamble of the wajib-ul-arz indicates that the conditions subscribed to by the co-sharers were conditions of a contract and a further reason for that conclusion is that there is a certain variation as to the conditions of the pre-emption between the wajib-ul-arz of 1833 and that of 1860. It would be easy to lay too much stress on the particular words used by the framers of the wajib-ul-arz; in my opinion, the mere use of the word iqrarnama does not point to the conclusion that the parties (sic) that all the entriesin the wajib-ul-arz (sic) be mere evidence of a contract. There is no doubt a certain variation, if it can be called so, between the entries in the two wajib-ul-arzes. In the wajib-ul-arz of 1833 it is stated that the sharih-daran-i-deh shall have a right of pre-emption. In the wajib-ul-arz of 1860 the several categories were set out in detail and certain co-sharers were given preferential rights over other co-sharers. A similar question was considered by this Court in Hublal Tiwari v. Ganga Sahai 6 Ind. Cas. 151 : 7 A.L.J. 519. In this case, the wajib-ul-arz of 1833 records a custom in general terms while the wajib-ul-arz of 1860 sets out the same custom in greater detail. In this view of the case, I am of opinion that the Courts below were wrong in holding that the custom of pre-emption does not exist in the village to which the parties belong. I allow this appeal, set aside the decrees of the Courts below, and remand the case to the first Court through the lower appellate Court with directions to re-admit it to its original number in the Register and dispose of it according to law. Costs will be costs in the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Bandhu Ahir vs Bisheshar Rai And Ors. on 26 April, 1910 Equivalent citations: 6 Ind Cas 704 a Author: Griffin Bench: Griffin JUDGMENT Griffin, J. 1. This appeal arises out of a suit for pre-emption. The question raised in it is whether the entry in the wajib-ul-arz relied on as proof of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bandhu Ahir vs Bisheshar Rai And Ors. on 26 April, 1910 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bandhu-ahir-vs-bisheshar-rai-and-ors-on-26-april-1910\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandhu Ahir vs Bisheshar Rai And Ors. on 26 April, 1910 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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