MADHAVA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS batch of revision petitions filed under Sec. 21 of the a. P. Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "land Reforms Act") comes up before us on reference by our learned brother Ramachandra Rao, J. ,

( 2 ) THE Civil Revision Petition No. 1395 of 1976 by the Government of andhra Pradesh is directed against the order of the Land reforms Appellate Tribunal, Krishna in L. R. A. C. 26/76. The respondent-declarant had set up six contracts for sale under which he claimed that he had sold various extents of land comprised in Survey Nos. 27, 28, 19/3, 135, 137, 42, 44/2 to 6 to various persons and put them in possession in part performance of the said contracts as detailed hereunder:-

( 3 ) THE Land Reforms Tribunal held that as neither any registered sale-deeds were executed in respect of these sales nor the purchasers had perfected their title by adverse possession the declarant continued to be the owner of those lands and computed the extents covered by the said contracts for sale in the holding of the declarant. The original Tribunal accordingly found the holding of the declarant s family unit to be at 1. 8621 sta