3 Role of the Courts in Resolving Property Matters

The hierarchy and the land case's journey:1. The district courts — the first-instance general jurisdiction: the title, partition, possession and succession suits (the Civil Procedure Code's special procedures: the lis pendens registration, the amin's survey commissions, the local inspection — sthal-bhraman — the land court's characteristic method); the appeal-ladder (the High Courts — the seven provinces' benches; the Supreme Court — the final court of appeal (the case-groups of the prescribed list: the NKP-reported land and family-property decisions);2. The Supreme Court's dual roles: the appellate corrective (the property doctrine — Units 2, 5, 8, 11's jurisprudence) and the constitutional/writ jurisdiction (Article 133/144-era practice — the habeas-corpus-of-land cases: the acquisition-compensation writs, the Malpot offices' arbitrary cancellations, the guthi/trust mismanagement petitions — public law disciplining the land administration);3. The specialized streams: the revenue disputes' tribunal route (the land-revenue assessments); the administrative appeals (the Ministry's acquisition-compensation appeals — Unit 5) — the exhaustion-architecture routing matters through the statutory fora before/instead of courts;4. The courts' characteristic doctrines (the course's accumulated toolkit): the registry's primacy vs. the likhat equity; possession-protection; lis pendens; the purvaja scrutiny; the amin's resurveys as the fact-finding spine; the in rem effect of partition decrees;5. The courts-and-ADR interplay: the referral practice (the dockets' mediation-first culture); the arbitration award's recognition/enforcement and the setting-aside control; the settlement's decree-effect (the sulha recorded as judgment…