[UP Revenue Code] Primacy Must Be Given to Family Settlement Acted Upon by Co-Tenure Holders in Partition Dispute: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court, in a significant ruling, has reaffirmed that in disputes arising under the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, a family settlement that has been acted upon and accepted by co-tenure holders must be given primacy. Justice Alok Mathur, while delivering the judgment in the matter titled Shahadat Ali and Another Versus Board of Revenue, U.P., Lko. Thru. Member And 8 Others, stressed that oral family settlements, if acted…