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24. The abadi deh is the inhabited village site consisting of land on which houses of the villagers usually exists. It includes streets, play grounds, schools, drinking wells, ponds, lawns, dharmasalsas and sarais. Just as in Shamilat deh so also in the abadi deh the proprietary rights are, as a rule, vested in the proprietary body.

25. Though a proprietor of the village (malikana-deh) has got full rights over the dwelling house on abadi deh but co-sharers in the exclusive possession of a site in the abadi could not use it in a manner which altered its joint character or was otherwise inconsistent with the rights of the other co-sharers. These sites are usually recorded as the common property of the community