( 1 ) IN this revision petition, filed under section 21 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973, two contentions are raised by Sri S. V. Sundara rajan, the learned Counsel for the petitioner: (1) that the Land Reforms Tribunal should have held that the lands in survey Nos. 320/1, 320/2 and 308/4, which were sold under unregistered agreements of sale, dated 12th September, 1970 to one Sri P. Chalapathi should be excluded from the holding of the petitioner ; and (2) that the land of an extent of Acres 1. 14 cents in Survey No. 323/3 which was alleged to have been orally gifted on 19th July, 1976 to one Sri gorantla Subramanya Sastry at the time of performing the obsequies of the petitioner s grandfather should also be excluded in computing the holding of the petitioner.

( 2 ) THE Land Reforms Tribunal held on point No. 1, that the sale not having been effected by a registered deed no title passes to the transferee, and that under section 3 (i) of the Act the land covered by the agreement of sale has to be included in the holding of both the petitioner and the transferee. With regard to second point the Land Reforms tribunal held that the gift w

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