Lord MacDermott.-

This is an appeal by the Palestine Kupat Am Bank Co - operative Society Limited (hereinafter called the Bank) and a cross - appeal (by special leave) by the Government of Palestine (hereinafter called the Government) from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Palestine (Edwards and Rose JJ.), sitting as a Court of Appeal, Jerusalem, dated 27 - 7 - 1944, which allowed in part an appeal by the Government from a decision of the Land Settlement Officer, Haifa, of 15 - 3 - 1943, concerning 'the ownership of a parcel of land in a locality known as Khirbet Yunis in the neighbourhood of the village of Tira.

[2] In addition to the Bank and the Government there were 22 other parties to the suit who appear on the record as respondents. For reasons not now material they took no active part in the appeal and were not represented before the Board.

[3] The events out of which the present dispute between the Bank and the Government arose may be shortly stated. In 1882 the Turkish Government made a grant of land in the locality of Khirbet Yunis to four villagers. This grant was recorded in the Tira land book under entry No. 140. The particulars contained therein state the boundaries on