law: Partition Act, 1893
  4. Partition suit by transferee of share in dwelling-house
  
  
  (1) Where a share of a dwelling-house belonging to an undivided
  
  family has been transferred to a person who is not a member of such family and
  
  such transferee sues for partition, the Court shall, if any member of the
  
  family being a shareholder shall undertake to buy the share of such transferee,
  
  make a valuation of such share in such manner as it thinks fit and direct the
  
  sale of such share to such shareholder, and may give all necessary and proper
  
  directions in that behalf.
  (2) If in any case described in sub-section (1) two or more members
  
  of the family being such shareholders severally undertake to buy such share,
  
  the Court shall follow the procedure prescribed by sub-section (2) of the last
  
  foregoing section.