Judgment

ORDER - This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment of a learned single Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Civil Revision Petition No. 1472 of 1976. The revision petition was filed under S.21 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act"). The appellant filed the declaration under S. 8(1) of the Act showing a holding of 119 acres and 82 cents of land. His wife filed a separate declaration. Both the declarations were clubbed together and the appellant and his wife were treated as one family unit within the meaning of S. 3(f) of the Act. After the various steps contemplated under the Act, a view was taken that the appellant was holding land in excess of the ceiling area and the same was liable to be taken over by the State. The dispute relates to certain alienations of land made by the appellant which have been ignored in calculating his ceiling area. This alienation falls within three categories. There is one alienation which has occurred on June 24, 1952 that is long before the ceiling on agricultural land was under contemplation. The other transactions in question pertain to th