P.NARAYANA PILLAI
KESAVA MENON – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent
1. Application of certain provisions of S.82 of the Land Reforms Act, I of 1964, has to be considered in these two Revision Petitions. That section, so far as is relevant here, reads:
"82. (1) The ceiling area of land shall be,...
(b) in the case of a family consisting of two or more, but not more than five members, ten standard acres, so however that the ceiling area shall not be less than twelve and more than fifteen acres in extent; ... ... ... ... ...
(2) For the purposes of this Chapter, all the lands owned or held individually by the members of a family or jointly by some or all of the members of such family shall be deemed to be owned or held by the family.... ... ... ... ...
Explanation I: For the purpose of this section, where a person has two or more legally wedded wives living, the husband, one of the wives named by him for the purpose and their unmarried minor children shall be deemed to be one family; and the other wife or each of the other wives and her unmarried minor children shall be deemed to be a separate family."
The contention of the petitioners in these two Revision Petitions is that if a person who owns lands has two wives and they have no lands, as re
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