K.A.Swami, C.J.

This appeal is preferred against the order dated 4.8.1994 passed by the learned single Judge in W.P.No.13194 of 1994. The writ petition has been dismissed, hence the petitioner therein has come up in appeal.

2. In the writ petition, the petitioner sought for quashing the order dated 12.7.1994 bearing No. Na.Ka. A-4/11101/93 passed by the District Revenue Officer, Thiruvannamalai. It may be pointed out here that Na.Ka.A-4/11101/93 was an appeal filed against the order passed by the Assistant Settlement Officer, Thiruvannamalai, on 20.1.1993 granting patta of the land in question in favour of the petitioner/ appellant under the Standing Orders of the Board of Revenue.

2.1. The District Revenue Officer has allowed the appeal and rejected the petition filed by the petitioner/ appellant for granting patta in his name. He has held that the land was an ancestral property and the alleged sale deed, claimed to have been executed on 19.6.1971 by Meenakshi Ammal, mother of the 3rd respondent, was an unregistered deed and it did not convey any title. Therefore, he has set aside the order passed by the Assistant Settlement Officer and rejected the petition filed by