https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273545 A survey settlement under the Bombay Land Revenue Code was upheld where the statutory steps were not directly proved but were supported by long-standing assessment, open announcement to grantees, and the presumption of regularity under the Evidence Act; the resulting non-agricultural assessment was therefore treated as lawful. The plea of res judicata failed because the earlier litigation had not directly and substantially decided whether such a settlement existed. The suit against the Government also failed because notice under Section 80 of the Civil Procedure Code was not validly served on all suing trustees, and that mandatory precondition had to be strictly complied with before proceedings could continue. en-us Tue, 11 Jan 1949 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:46:23 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273545 A survey settlement under the Bombay Land Revenue Code was upheld where the statutory steps were not directly proved but were supported by long-standing assessment, open announcement to grantees, and the presumption of regularity under the Evidence Act; the resulting non-agricultural assessment was therefore treated as lawful. The plea of res judicata failed because the earlier litigation had not directly and substantially decided whether such a settlement existed. The suit against the Government also failed because notice under Section 80 of the Civil Procedure Code was not validly served on all suing trustees, and that mandatory precondition had to be strictly complied with before proceedings could continue. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 Jan 1949 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273545