Judgement

Consolidated Appeals, by special leave, from two judgments and twenty decrees of the High Court (November 25, 1909, and June 3, 1910) affirming, subject to a modification, decrees of the District Judge and the Subordinate Judge of Birbhum, which decrees affirmed decrees of the said Subordinate Judge and of the Munsifs Court of Rampurhat.

The appellant was the proprietor of zamindaris in the Birbhum district which were settled with his predecessor at the permanent settlement in 1793. At various dates between 1834 and 1862 some of these zamindaris, or in some cases mauzas within them, had been settled by patni leases granted by the predecessors of the appellant, or by the appellant himself. These patnis covered in each case the entire interest of the zamindar in the lands within the boundaries specified. The patnidars under some of the patnis had assigned their rights thereunder by darpatni gran is. Within the boundaries of the patni grants there had existed from the time of the permanent settlement certain chaukidari chakaran tenures.

In and between 1895 and 1900 the Collector of Birbhum, acting under the Village Chaukidari Act (Bengal Act VI. of 1870), resumed many of the