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4.In N.S.Kuppuswamy Odayar v. The Panchayat Narthangudi (1971) 1 MLJ 190, it was held that the mere fact that in the re-settlement register, a particular piece of land has been described as 'Poramboke' will not by itself establish title of the government to the land in question. S.Sundararaja Iyengar in his classic work “Land Tenures in the Madras Presidency” writes as follows :

“The whole area of a Tamil village is divided into (1) warapat, (2) tirwapat, (3) tarisu, and (4) poramboke. Warapat are the cultivable lands which give waram or share of the produce, generally nanja or wet lands; tirwapat, lands which pay a tirwa or money tax, generally punjas or cultivated https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis wastes, and gardens; tarisu, waste divided into two classes, sheykal carambo i.e., cultivable waste and anadi carambo i.e. immemorial waste; and poramboke, lands incapable of cultivation consisting of rocks, public roads, beds of rivers, tanks and watercourses, burning grounds, the paracheri or suburbs of the village occupied by the huts of pariahs and other outcastes, the lands on which the different temples stand and the site of the village itself called nuttum.” A learned Judge of this Court in the judgment reported in (2006) 3 MLJ 216 (Muthammal v. State of Tamil Nadu) had noted that patta was issued only for assessed lands and that is why, even Natham was called as 'poramboke'.