Gade Rajagopalarao And Anr. vs State Of Orissa And Ors. on 27 April, 1956
It is equally clear by very high authorities and it does not require any discussion by us; and particularly as the position is not challenged, in order to construe whether the Inam grant constitutes an estate within the meaning of the Madras Act, we are to consider the circumstances existing at the time when the grant was made, that is to say, that the grant was in respect of a whole village at the time when it was made. It would not be taken to be an estate if subsequent to the grant, the area granted formed the village. We may in this connexion simply refer to two highest authorities on the subject in the case of .District Board, Tanjore v. M.K. Noor Mohamed, reported in AIR 1953 SC 446 (A), and in the case of Kriahnaswami v. Perumal, reported in AIR 1950 PC 105 (B).