' MUNIR A. SHEIKH, J.---This petition is directed against the judgment, dated 13-10-1999 of the Lahore High Court, Lahore through which revision petition filed by the petitioners has been dismissed.
2. The dispute relates to inheritance of one Nawab. The respondents were admittedly his daughters 'whereas the present petitioners are his collaterals being heirs of his brother. It was held that after the death of Nawab, the land was inherited by his widow Mst. Hakam Bibi/mother of the respondents as limited owner and on the termination of her limited interest, the property devolved on the heirs of last male owner i.e, Nawab, under the Muslim Law. Since Nawab had not left any male heir therefore, his two daughters were declared to be the owners of the property by way of inheritance according to the shares allocated to them as daughters under the Mohammedan Law and the remaining property was inherited by the respondents as collaterals. These findings have been recorded by all the Courts below and we do not find any reason as to why the present petitioners have filed this petition.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the only objection which the petitioners wanted to agitate was that since the respondents were not in possession of the property, therefore, the suit for mere declaration without prayer for consequential relief of possession was not maintainable.
4. We are afraid, the argument is plainly unsound. The heirs of Nawab had become joint owners of the property after the termination of limited interest of Hakam Bibi therefore, it was a case of joint ownership C and suit for declaration by one of the joint owners that they were also owners in the property which right was being denied to them, was maintainable.
5. It was not necessary for any of the joint owners, to have claimed partition of the joint property at present as it could be claimed by any of the joint owners during the currency of joint ownership without limitation of any period in that behalf so long as the right of any of the joint owners was not denied which was not in dispute in this case.
6. For the foregoing reasons, the impugned judgment does not suffer from any illegality, therefore, this petition has no merits which is accordingly, dismissed and .