The learned trial judge by his judgment, dated September 29, 1962, dismissed the respondents ' suit with these findings: (a) that the alleged custom of impartibility and devolution of property by the rule of primogeniture had not been proved; (b) that there was a severance of the joint family consisting of the two brothers, in 1902, when they had agreed to separate, that since then for about 53 years till his death in 1955, Ramachandrarao was living separately and enjoying the suit land as his separate property; (c) that the suit lands were originally Watan lands, but they were not so at the date of the suit because the Bombay Act 60 of 1950, which came into force on May 1, 1951, had abolished Watans and thereafter the suit lands were, on the application of its holder, Ramachandrarao, regranted in his favour; that the plaintiffs were aware of Ramachandrarao 's application for the regrant and they had tacitly assented to the regrant in his favour.