In Shri Audh Behari Singh vs Gajadhar Jaipuria,(1) this Court held that "The correct legal position seems to be that the law of preemption imposes a limitation or disability upon the ownership of a property to the "extent that it restricts the owner 's unfettered right of sale and compels him to sell the property to his co sharer or neighbour as the case may be The crux of the whole thing is that the benefit as well as the burden of the right of preemption run with the land and can be enforced by or against the owner of the land for the time being although the right of the preemptor does not amount to an interest in the land itself The right of preemption is an incident of property and attaches to the land itself. . . . ." This Court had occasion to consider the matter again in Bishan Singh vs Khazan Singh(2) and pointed out that the right of preemption is not a right to the thing sold but a right to the offer of a thing about to be sold, this being the primary or inherent right, and that the preemptor has a secondary right or a remedial right to follow the thing sold.