JAGAT NARAYAN, J.—This is a revision application by the defendants against an order of the Civil Judge, Pali, holding that a sale-deed executed by the Chairman, Municipal Board, Pali, for Rs. 99/- in favour of the plaintiff is not inadmissible in evidence for want of registration, because the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act do not apply to it as it is a transfer covered by sec. 2 of the Government Grants Act, 1895. The revision application has been opposed on behalf of the plaintiff.

2. The first contention on behalf of applicants is that the Government Grants Act, 1895 is no longer applicable to Rajasthan. Sec. 1(2) of the Act as it stands today reads as follows :

"It extends to the whole of India except the territories which immediately before 1.11.56 were comprised in Part B States."

3. Rajasthan was a Part B State before 1st November, 1956.

4. The above sub-section stood as follows before it was adapted under the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956—

"It extends to the whole of India except Part B States."

5. By the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956 for "Part B States" the words "the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956 were comprised in Part B States" were substituted.

6. Before however Rajasthan became a Part B State under the Constitution the Rajasthan Adaptation of Central Laws Ordinance, 1950 was passed by the then Rajpramukh. It came into force on 24.1.50. The Crown Grants Act 1895 was extended to Rajasthan under item 35 of it with effect from 24.1.50.

7. It continued in force after the coming into force of the Constitution under Art. 372 of the Constitution. The Act is within the legislative competence of the State under Item No. 6, List III, Schedule VII of the Constitution, which runs—

"Transfer of Property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds and documents."

8. It is true that it was extended without any adaptation. But it is quite clear that the intention was to extend the provisions of the Act to Rajasthan. The Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956 was passed under Art. 372-A of the Constitution. It only adapted the Government Grants Act as it stood on that date. There was no intention to repeal the Crown Grants Act, 1895 which had already been extended to Rajasthan under the Rajasthan Adaptation of Central Laws Ordinance, 1950. The name of the Act was changed to the Government Grants Act, 1895 after the coming into force of the Constitution.

9. I accordingly find that the Government Grants Act, 1895 is applicable to Rajasthan.

10. The next contention on behalf of the applicants is that sec. 2 of the Government Grants Act is not applicable to the sale-deed in question, as it is a commercial transaction and not a Government Grant. I am unable to accept this contention. The Act does not make any distinction between a commercial transaction and a non-commercial transaction. Sec. 2 is applicable not only to grants but is also applicable to every transfer of land or of any interest therein.

11. Two decisions were referred to by the learned counsel for the applicants. In Munshi Lal vs. Gopi Ballabh(l) a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court held that a lease executed on behalf of the Government was not exempt from registration under the provisions of Sec. 107 of the Transfer of Property Act. The learned Judges relied on earlier decision of their Court in Dost Mohammed Khan vs. Bank of Upper India(2). A Crown grant was mortgaged in that case and it was claimed that the grant was not subject to sale at the suit of the mortgagee. This contention was repelled with the following observations :—

"It is difficult to interpret sec. 2 of the Crown Grants Act, but from a perusal of the preamble to the Act it is reasonably clear that (he object of the Legislature in passing the Act was to validate any provisions, restrictions conditions, and limitations over, which might be contained in any Crown Grant and which otherwise might be held to be obnoxious to the restrictions imposed i

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