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"Cleaning through the aforesaid relevant material contained in the Settlement and Land Administration Manuals, which continue to apply in Himachal Pradesh, and the judicial dicta, the position which emerges is that Abadi Deh, that is, the inhabited site of the village, consists of sites on which the houses of the remembers of the brotherhood or proprietary body are usually built close together, small plots attached or annexed thereto which are used for penning the cattle, storing manure or stacking straw, empty or vacant sites unoccupied by any individual, common plots set apart for public use such as the chapel or hujra, for dharamshalas, mosques, graveyards, burning ghats, tanks, wells etc. and public paths or ways. The village site is measured in one number for the purposes of the revenue records and the entry in the column of ownership and occupancy will be "Abadi Deh"., The Abadi is almost always excluded from the operation of the Land Revenue Act, except so far as may be necessary for the record, recovery and administration of village cases. The proprietary body or brotherhood holds Abadi Deh in joint ownership and it is treated as the common property of the community. Still, however, generally speaking, the greater part of Abadi Deh is in most cases indivisible and members of the community cannot call for a redistribution of the area or for a partition according to the khewat or ancestral shares. The members of the community, who have built their houses or ghers in the portion of the village site for long with the assent or acquiescence of their co-sharers, cannot be ousted from the sites, on which they have built, in the guise of partition. So also the portions of the land set apart by common consent for public use cannot be brought into any scheme of redistribution or partition at the instance of any member of the community. If the village site in which such portions are comprised is assessed to land revenue, which would be in a very rare case, the revenue authorities may determine the extent and manner to and in which the co-sharers may make use thereof and the proportion in which expenditure, if any, incurred thereon and the profits if any deprived therefrom are to be borne by and divided by those persons or any of them. However, so far as empty or open sites in or about the village, unoccupied by the members of the community and not used by them for any public purpose, are concerned, whether they are enclosed by shrubs, bushes etc. or not any member(s) of the proprietary body can call for the partition of such vacant or open site according to the rule applicable in a particular case which, more often than not, determines the share of each proprietor therein according to the land revenue paid by him."