JUDGMENT

Fletcher, J. - This is an appeal from a judgment of the learned District Judge of Bankura, dated the 26th July 1912, allowing an appeal from the decision of the learned Subordinate Judge. The plaintiff brought the suit to recover certain lands which he had formerly been in possession of as Ghatwal, but from which it is alleged that he had been dismissed by an order of the District Magistrate. The case in both the lower Courts proceeded solely on the question whether the plaintiff had or had not been dismissed by the District Magistrate and whether he was entitled to ask the Court to review the order of dismissal made by the District Magistrate. That was the only point raised in the two lower Courts and that is the only point we have got to decide here. This Ghatwali is in Bankura. The nature of the Ghatwali in that district has been laid down in the Privy Council judgment in the case of Nilmoni Singh Deo v. Bakranath Singh 9 C. 187 (P.C.) : 9 I.A. 104 : 5 Shome L.R. 68 : 4 Sar. P.C.J. 335. The nature of the interest is that, although it is heritable, the ordinary rules of inheritance according to the Hindu and the Muhammadan Laws are not applicable to the tenure, but it is