Section 36. When a tenant having a right of occupancy in any land dies, his right shall devolve on his male line

36. When a tenant having a right of occupancy in any land dies, his right shall devolve on his male lineal descendants (if any), and, failing such descendants, the right shall go to his male collateral relatives: Provided that the common ancestor of the deceased and his said relatives shall have occupied such land. As among descendants and collateral relatives claiming under this section, such right shall devolve and go as if it were land left by the deceased in the village in which such land is situate.