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These pattas were obviously granted by the Thikana Beda. The mention of a rasta over the land which is in dispute in this case constitutes therefore an important admission on the part of the Thikana that the land lying to the northern side of Moolchand's house and the southern side, of Dharam Chand's with which we are concerned in the present case was a rasta. This admission is a very strong piece of evidence, and it cannot but bind all those who derived their title from the Thikana as the other defendants did in the present case. The oral evidence, therefore, led by the plaintiffs receives valuable support from these two documents. I am, therefore, unhesitatingly of the opinion that the view of the learned Judge that the plaintiffs have failed to prove that they were making use of the land in question as passage as of right is an entirely mistaken one. The learned Judge seems to have laboured under the impression that this description of boundaries in the pattas was not enough to show "that it was a dedication for the public at large or that the inhabitants of the four Mohallas had been using it as of right".