This is plaintiffs' second appeal. Heard learned counsel for both the parties.

2. The parties shall be referred to in the manner in which they appear in the cause title of the Regular Civil Suit No. 64/2001/A.

3. The plaintiffs had filed the said Suit for declaration that they are in lawful possession and enjoyment of the suit property and that the name of forest department entered in the other rights column of Form No. I & XIV of record of rights in respect of suit property is illegal and incorrect. A direction was also sought to be given to the Land Survey Department, Panaji, Goa to delete the name of Forest department from the other rights column in Form No. I & XIV in respect of the suit property and to enter the name of plaintiffs in that place and in occupants' column.

4. Case of the plaintiffs, in short, was as follows:-

The suit property known as “Goulewada” or “Zambolichem Mol”, admeasuring 38.97.00 hectares, situated in village Melaulim of Taluka Sattari, Goa, consists of cashew trees, mango trees, jackfruit trees and teak wood trees and they and their family members have been cultivating paddy and nachne in a portion of it for last more than 45 years. By deed of