herein. 23-SLP(C) 9202-9204 OF 201616. With the appeal before the Additional District Judge, Faridkot, being dismissed, the decree of 1979 in the first partition suit has attained finality. Therefore, the remit of the second partition suit necessarily has to exclude the portions which already stand decreed per the first partition suit. As already noticed above, by virtue of the first partition decree, the legal representatives of Mukand Singh and Chanan Singh have been in possession of the decreed lands since 21st September, 1985. Any decision qua Khasra No.2259 taken in the second partition suit has to protect the property as allotted to the legal representatives of the above-named persons. The Trial Court in its judgment dated 15th October, 1990 records that ‘as regards khasra no.2259 and 2262 plaintiff alongwith Nand Singh are owners in possession of 1/2 share (1/4 share each) out of these Khasra numbers…’. It is evident from the above that Thakkar Singh and Nand Singh both