In all the above revisions the scope of section 22 of the Tamil Nadu Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling on Land) Act, 1961, has come up for consideration and so they are dealt with together. Before dealing with the common legal issue involved in these cases, it is necessary to set out briefly the facts relating to each of these revisions.

2.C.R.P. Nos. 1824 and 1825 of 1965.- One Naganatha Iyer, whose family consisted of his wife and three daughters, submitted a return under section 10 declaring his holding as 83-09 ordinary acres=73.74 standard acres as on 6th April, 1960. The Authorised Officer held that his family was entitled to 60 standard acres and as Naganatha Iyer’s family was in possession of 13 acres in excess, he was liable to surrender the same. He was called upon to surrender the said excess extent. The said Naganatha Iyer pleaded that one of his daughters was given in marriage on 6th September, 1961, and she has passed into the family of her husband and as such her stridhana property of 10-36 standard acres would vest in the family of her husband and that the Authorised Officer was not right in including the said stridhana property in his holding. He also pleade