Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 462 · Decided 12 November 2002
Tulsi Ram and ORS. v. Mathura Sagar Pan Tatha Krishi and Anr .
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 462 · [2002] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 104
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1170/1980
- Decided
- 12 November 2002
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, Y.K. SABHARWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Doctrine of 'lost grant'- Presumption ofin favour of an indefinite body of persons and members of a particular community-Owners of a tank allowing C !'Jer of their tank to a community for fishery .under an agreement a century ago on payment for maintenance of tank-Owners seeking injunction against It cannot claim lost grant since what was granted to it was only license to fish-Land laws. D Barais community, owners of tanks in a village used to draw water for irrigation of betel leaves plantations and appellants-Dhimars, a fishing community used to catch fish from the said tanks. For
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