{"id":75033,"date":"1912-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1912-03-21T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mawasi-vs-mul-chand-and-ors-on-22-march-1912"},"modified":"2017-04-03T02:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T20:33:19","slug":"mawasi-vs-mul-chand-and-ors-on-22-march-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mawasi-vs-mul-chand-and-ors-on-22-march-1912","title":{"rendered":"Mawasi vs Mul Chand And Ors. on 22 March, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mawasi vs Mul Chand And Ors. on 22 March, 1912<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1912) ILR 34 All 434<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: H Richards, Tudball<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Henry Richards, C.J. and Tudball, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. This appeal arises out of a suit for pre-emption. The plaintiff is the owner of two small plots of land which are not assessed for Government revenue. The plots held by the plaintiff appear in the same khewat as the land which goes to make up a 20 biswaa mahal. To this extent and no further can it be said that the plaintiff is a proprietor in the mahal in which the property sold is situate. The 20 bighas, 3 biswas and 7 biswansis do not go to make up the 20 biswas share set forth in the khewat. The only evidence adduced by the plaintiff in support of the existence of a custom of pre-emption is the wajib-ul-arz. The wajib-ul-arz for mahal Chhidu is as follows :-&#8221; In this mahal if the owner of a share wish to sell it, he shall do so first to his near relation, who may be a co-sharer in the zamindari, and in case of his refusal to anyone he likes. The wajib-ul-arz for mahal Roti Ram is in similar terms. Now the custom which the plaintiff attempts to set up is a custom giving a right of pre-emption to a person who is only a co-sharer in the ,very limited sense which we have already stated, namely, he merely holds two revenue-free plots entered in the same khewat q the property which is sold, is situated. The probability of such a custom existing is very slight. In the Full Bench case of Dalganjan Singh v. Kalka Singh (1899) I.L.R. 22 All. 1 the learned Chief Justice said:&#8221; The most essential feature of the co-parcenary body is the joint and several responsibility of the co-sharers for the payment of the Government revenue assessed on the mahal, coupled in cases of zamindari tenure with the holding and management of the whole of the lands of. the mahal by all the co-sharers in common. It is for the mahal, for the &#8221; local area held under a separate engagement for the payment of the land revenue,&#8221; not for a village or other local area, not being a mahal, that the Settlement Officer frames the wajib-ul-arz. It is meant as a record of the contracts or the customs of the co-sharers of the mahal. This being its object, it is primd facie unlikely to include any contract or custom which is absolutely independent of the continuance of the mahal as a fiscal and proprietary unit, or of the co-parcenary body for which it is framed. It seems to us that in considering the question of the existence or non-existence of a custom of pre-emption the principle involved in the foregoing remarks fully apply to the present case. The plaintiff is in no way liable for the payment of Government revenue in conjunction with the vendor. He has no right to have any voice in the management of the mahal in which the vendor&#8217;s property is situate. In all probability he would not be consulted or have any right to be heard when the wajib-ul-arz was being framed. It is in all probability a mere accident that the plots of land which he holds came to be put into the khewat in which they are found. There is in short no community of interest. These are all matters Which the court in considering the question of the existence or non-existence of a custom of pre-emption is entitled and bound to take into consideration. The wajib-ul-arz is not the custom. It is merely a piece of evidence to be given due consideration to in the course of the inquiry. The question is, whether by production of the wajib-ul-arz in question, without the sup; single instance in which the right has been claimed or exe; the plaintiff has discharged the onus of proving the existence a custom of pre-emption giving him as a proprietor of an isolated plot a right to pre-empt.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. In our opinion, the evidence falls altogether short of anything of the kind, and the decision of the court below was quite correct.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.  We accordingly dismiss the appeal with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Mawasi vs Mul Chand And Ors. on 22 March, 1912 Equivalent citations: (1912) ILR 34 All 434 Bench: H Richards, Tudball JUDGMENT Henry Richards, C.J. and Tudball, J. 1. This appeal arises out of a suit for pre-emption. 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