Supreme Court of India

Sunkavilli Suranna and Others v. Goli Sathiraju and Others

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Reported as [1962] 3 S.C.R. 653
Bench K.N. Wanchoo J.
Decided 18 September 1961

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Occupancy Rights-Ryot in possession before permanent Bettlement-Terms as to commencement of tenancy lost in anti­ quity-Presumption as lo melvaram and kudirnram.,--Right. of ryots in Z•imindaries-Madras Estates Land Act, 1908 (Mad. 1 of 1908), s. 6. The lands in question which were within the permanently settled Zamindari in the then Presidency of Madras, belonged to T who, during his lifetime, was cultivating the lands. He died in 1885 leaving behind, inter alia, three daughters. After the death of the three daughters, the last having died in 1935, the sons of one of them instituted a suit

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