Supreme Court of India

R.E.M.S. Abdul Hameed v. Govindaraju and Ors.

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Reported as [1999] 2 S.C.R. 1010
Bench A.P. Misra and R.C. Lahoti JJ.
Decided 4 May 1999

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons and also in view of the findings recorded by both the Tribunal and the High Court concurrently that the grant could not D be said to be only in terms of acreage.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Tenancy and Land Laws: T.N. Inam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 (Act 26 of 1963), Sections 2(9), 2(11) Explanations 1(a) and 1(b)-T.N. Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 (Act 30 of 1963), Section 2(9)-Lands whose grant was expressed only in terms of acreage or cawines do not constitute a "Part village inam estate" and are excludedfrom the operation of Act 26of1963-Such land is a "minor inam" under Section 2(9) of Act 30 of 1963-Intention of the legislature was to encompass all inam estates within the fold of Act 26 of 1963 and if an

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