Supreme Court of India

Kanta Rani © Kanti Devi & Anr. v. Rama Rani

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Reported as [1988] 2 S.C.R. 895
Decided 8 February 1988

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the right to sue in the present case survived on the death of Kishan Chand in favour of the appellants who were his legal representatives and they were entitled to be brought on record in substitution of the original plaintiff Kishan Chand under Order 22 Rule 3 of the Civil Procedure Code.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Civil Procedure Code, 1908: Order 22 Rule 3-Pre-emption suit-Whether legal representatives of a tenant entitled to be brought on record. Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913: Section 15--Whether right to pre emption confe"ed on tenant by customary law heritable or not­ Whether any distinction between right of pre-emption arising under Statute law and customary law-When right of tenancy heritable every incidental right thereto heritable. The property in dispute was sold by its original owner to the respondent. Claiming that there was a local custom under which the tenant in occupation of a building

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