https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157405 Section 21A of the Tamil Nadu Land Reforms Act validated certain partitions and transfers, but it did not alter the separate statutory definition of "stridhana land" in Section 3(42). The Court held that a validating clause for post-commencement transactions operates in a different field and cannot displace the requirement that the female member must have held the land in her own right on the Act's commencement date. Land allotted later in 1970 in recognition of a pre-existing maintenance right could not relate back to create such holding, because a bare maintenance entitlement is not ownership or possession with title. The land therefore remained includible in the ceiling holding. en-us Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:13:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157405 Section 21A of the Tamil Nadu Land Reforms Act validated certain partitions and transfers, but it did not alter the separate statutory definition of "stridhana land" in Section 3(42). The Court held that a validating clause for post-commencement transactions operates in a different field and cannot displace the requirement that the female member must have held the land in her own right on the Act's commencement date. Land allotted later in 1970 in recognition of a pre-existing maintenance right could not relate back to create such holding, because a bare maintenance entitlement is not ownership or possession with title. The land therefore remained includible in the ceiling holding. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157405