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RESERVATION OF LAND BY SMALL OWNER. - Any small landowner, who by virtue of an allotment made after the commencement of this Act under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (Act XXXI of 1950), comes to hold more than the permissible area of land, may select out of the entire area held by him as a landowner in the State of Punjab, a parcel or parcels of land not exceeding in aggregate the permissible area and reserve it by intimating his reservation in the prescribed form and manner, to the Patwari of, the estate in which the land -reserved is situate, or to such other authority as may be prescribed, before expiry of six months from the date of his obtaining possession of the land so allotted: Provided that he shall include in his reservation, to the extent of the permissible • area, whatever land he had uncle, self-cultivation immediately before the commencement of this Act. • Case Law Sections 3,41 and 24A—Would the death of the landowner after the surplus land is declared, allotted to tenants purchase amount deposited, call for fresh dedlaration of Surplus land with his legal heirs—No— Surplus land ORDER not challenged by the landowner or his legal heirs after his death—FC ,held the declaration of Surplus 'area in 1960/80 held the field—Never set aside—Allottee deposited purchase amount on 30.3:1982—Became owner of the land—Death of landowner in 1984 would not call for fresh assessment of Surplus area in the hands of legal heirs=FCs order cannot be said to suffer from any infirmity; Sudarshan Nath & Ors. v. State of Punjab & Ors.; 2000(2) Land L.R. .(Supreme Court) 330