The questions that fall for determination in these appeals are, firstly, whether the impartibility of the tenure of a paragana watan appertaining to the office of a Hereditary District (Paragana) officer in respect of which a commutation settlement has been effected, regulating succession to the property, by reason of family custom or a local custom being the incidents of such watan stands abolished by virtue of section 3 of Act No. 60 of 1950 or section 4 of Act No. 22 of 1955, and, secondly, whether the watan lands lost the character of being joint family property with the resumption of the watan under section 3 of Act No. 60 of 1950 or s.4 of Act No. 22 of 1955 and re grants thereof were exclusive to the plaintiff under section 4 of Act No.22 of 1955, by reason of his status as the watandar and therefore, they belonged to the plaintiff and were not capable of partition There is no merit in any of these submissions.