JUDGMENT

K. N. SAIKIA, J.:—These seven appeals by certificate under Article 133(1)(a) of the Constitution of India are from the common judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court dated 20-11-1970 in several appeals and writ petitions. The a pellants are the tenants and respondents are the landholders or their legal representatives, as the case may be, in respect of the tenanted agricultural lands of the hitherto inam estates of Kukunuru and Veerabhadrapuram villages in the West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. After coming into force of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Estates (Abolition and Con-. version into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (A. P. Act, 26 of 1948), hereinafter referred to as the Estates Abolition Act, the inam estates were abolished and the land stood vested in the Government free of all encumbrances. The pre-existing right, title and interest of erstwhile landholders ceased except to claim ryotwari patta. The tenants were not liable to be evicted pending the proceedings for issuance of ryotwari patta. The respondents landholders, hereinafter referred to as the land holders, claimed that the lands in question were either under their personal cultivation or they intended to