RAM SINGH Vs. GURNAM SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order will dispose of R. S. As. Nos. 510, 511 and 512 of 1958.

(2.) ON the 31st of May, 1956, Aftab Rai, by means of four sale deeds sold four pieces of agricultural land, the details of which are set out hereunder:--Kanals. Marias. To whom sold. Sale price. Rs. Np.

(3.) THE contention of Mr. Faqir Chand Mital, the learned counsel for the appellants in R. S. A. No. 511 of 1958 which has been adopted by Mr. H. S. Gujral in R. S. A. Nos. 510 and 512 of 1958, is that by exchanging part of the property sold, a vendee cannot be held to have acquired a better or equal status with the pre-emptors, because what he acquires by exchange forms part of the preempted property and as such does not confer any right equal or superior to that of the pre-emptor.