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  Custom (Punjab)-Ancestral property---Property to be regarded ancestral even though inherited through female-Property inherited by father from his maternal grandfather-Ancestral qua the son-Stare decisis.   Rattigan's Digest of Customary Law, 13th Edn., p. 664; Lehna and another v. Mst. Thakri and another 32 P R 1895; Muhammad Hussain Khan and others v. Babu Kishwa Nandan Sahai A I R 1937 P C 233; Narotam Chand and another v. Mst. Durga Devi A I R 1949 E Pb. 109; 40 P R 1896; 74 P R 1899; 16 P R 1903; 110 P R 1906; 17 P R 1919; 70 I C 1920; 66 I C 402; 76 I C 604; Mst. Attar Kaur and Dula Singh v. Nikkoo and others 5 I L R (1924) Lah. 356; A I R 1925 Lah. 190; 13 I L R (1926) Lah. 1.26; 122 I C 226; (1930) 31 P L R 125 and Rana v. Muhammad Afzal Khan P L D 1949 Lah. 435 ref.   Custom (Punjab)-Rules of custom prevailing in Punjab Not identical with rules of Hindu Law.   Custom (Punjab)---Interpretation Judicial decisions Important proof of custom-Long chain of judicial decisions on particular point-Themselves create custom which must be deemed part of customary law.   Precedent-Stare decisis-Enunciation of-Long established course of decisions-Cannot be overruled except in cases where serious inconvenience or injustice would follow in perpetuating erroneous construction or ruling of law-Doctrine not limited to matters where concrete and tangible rights in immovable property come into existence-Applicable to other matters as well where Courts have taken particular view in long line of decisions over long period.   Halsbury's Laws of England, Third Edn.; Vol. XXII, para. 1690; Alfred Granville Ross v. The Queen P L D 1957 P C 151 and Allah Bakhsh v. L. Chet Ram and another A I R 1945 Lah. 123 ref.   Custom (Punjab)-Ancestral property-Dispute between various claimants ultimately ending in family arrangement Effect-Course of inheritance thereby not deflected so as to alter ancestral nature of property.   Lalla Oudh Beharee Lall v. Ranee Mewa Konwar (1868) 3 Agra H C R 82; Khunni Lal and others v. Munwar Gobind Krishana Narain and another 10 I C 477; Debtor v. M. Udit Pershad 90 I C 779; Tej Bahadur Khan v. Nakko Khan…