Subject to the provisions of section 14 the right of pre emption in respect of agricultural land and village immovable property shall vest (a) where the sale is by a sole owner or occupancy tenant or, in the case of land or property jointly 407 owned or held, is by all the co sharers jointly, in the persons in order of succession, who but for such sale would be entitled, on the death of the vendor or vendors, to inherit the land or property sold: (b) where the sale is of a share out of joint land or property, and is, not made by all the co sharers jointly, firstly, in the lineal decendants of the vendor in order of succession; secondly, in the co sharers, if any, who are agnates, in order of succession; thirdly in the persons, not included under firstly or secondly, above, in order of succession, who but for such sale would be entitled, on the death of the vendor, to inherit the land or property sold; fourthly, in the co sharers: (c) If no person having a right of pre emption under clause (a) or clause (b) seeks to exercise it, firstly, when the sale affects the superior or inferior proprietary right and the superior right is sold, in the inferior proprietors, and when the inferior proprietors, and when the inferior right is sale, in the superior proprietors; secondly, in the owners of the patti or other sub division of the estate within the limits of which such land or property is situate; thirdly, in the owners of the estate; fourthly, in the case of a sale of the proprietary right in such land or property, in the tenants (if any) having rights of occupancy in such land or property; 408 fifthly, in any tenant having a right of occupancy in any agricultural land in the estate within the limits of which the land or property is situated.