These Civil Revision Petitions arise out of the judgment of the learned District Judge of Visakhapatnam in a batch of Civil Miscellaneous Appeals confirming the two judgments of the District Munsif of Chodavaram made in two batches of suits. The first batch of eleven suits was filed by seven sets of inamdars against different sets of defendants for ejectment and recovery of arrears of rent in respect of certain lands in Kirla village. The other batch consisting of twenty-three suits was filed by other inamdars against the defendants therein for ejectment and recovery of rent in regard to some lands in Alamanda village. Among other contentions, the defendants in both the batches of suits pleaded that the said two villages were estates within the meaning of section 3(2)(e) of the Madras Estates Land Act (I of 1908)(hereafter called the Act), and that in any view, they being parts of a permanently settled zamindari, the plaintiffs were landholders within the meaning of the Act. On those pleas they contended that the civil Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the suits. The District Munsif, and on appeal the District Judge, accepted their contentions and returned the pl