https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194376 The Orissa Land Reforms Act, 1960 was construed to exclude a married daughter from her parents' "family" for ceiling and clubbing purposes because a married woman is treated as an independent legal unit, and including her would produce inconsistent clubbing of holdings with both parental and marital families. The Act's exception for a major married son was read to require that he be major, married and separated by partition or otherwise before the cut-off date, but the sequence of those events was immaterial so long as all conditions were satisfied before that date. The ordinary and reasonable meaning of "family" controlled the interpretation. en-us Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:07:52 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194376 The Orissa Land Reforms Act, 1960 was construed to exclude a married daughter from her parents' "family" for ceiling and clubbing purposes because a married woman is treated as an independent legal unit, and including her would produce inconsistent clubbing of holdings with both parental and marital families. The Act's exception for a major married son was read to require that he be major, married and separated by partition or otherwise before the cut-off date, but the sequence of those events was immaterial so long as all conditions were satisfied before that date. The ordinary and reasonable meaning of "family" controlled the interpretation. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194376