Summarize the following court judgment. Appeal No. 501 of 1964. Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated February 27	 1961 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in section p. A. No. 137 of 1959. R. Ganapath Iyer	 for the appellant. P. Ram Reddy and T. V R. Tatachari	 for respondent No. 1. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Subba Rao	 C. J. This appeal by special leave raises the question	 whether the land described as "Vantari Muttah" in Talluru village was included in the assets of Jaggampetta A and D Zamindari estates	 in Peddapuram taluk	 East Godavari District	 Andhra Pradesh	 at the time of the Permanent Settlement. The undisputed facts may be briefly narrated. The said Muttah comprises an area of 50 puttis	 i.e. about 400 acres	 and five tanks are situate therein. The said Muttah was granted to the predecessor in interest of the appellants and respondents 2 to 5 long before the Permanent Settlement in consideration of payment of Kuttubadi of a sum of Rs. 620/ . At the time of Inam Settlement	 it was not enfranchised by the Government. After the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act XXV] of 1948 was passed	 on September 22	 1952	 by a notification issued thereunder	 the Government took over the Jagganpeta Estate. In April 1953	 when the appellants and respondents 2 to 5 183 tried to effect repairs to the tanks	 the village munsif of Talluru tinder instructions from the 1 st respondent	 obstructed them from doing so. Thereupon	 the appellants filed O. section No. 269 of 1953 in the Court of the District Munsif	 Peddapuram	 against the State of Andhra and others for a declaration that the 1st respondent	 had no right to the said tanks and for an injunction restraining it and its subordinates from interfering with their rights in the said tanks. The 1st respondent resisted the suit inter alia on two grounds	 namely	 (i) the entire Vantari Muttah was included in the assets of the said estate of Jaggampeta at the time of the Permanent Settlement	 and (ii) in any view	 Linder the grant	 the predecessor in interest of the appellants and respondents 2 to 5 was given only the land and not the tanks therein. The learned District Munsif upheld the claim of the appellants to the said tanks and decreed the suit. On appeal	 the learned Subordinate Judge Kakinada	 held that the said land was included in the assets of the Zamindari at the time of the Permanent Settlement and	 on that finding	 he dismissed the Suit. On further appeal	 Kumarayya	 J. of the Andhra Pradesh High Court agreed with the learned District Munsif. But	 on Letters Patent appeal	 a Division Bench of the HighCourt	consisting of ChandraReddy	C.J.and ChandrasekharaSastry	J.	agreed with the learned Subordinate Judge. The result was that the Suit of the appellants was dismissed with costs throughout. Hence the present appeal. On the pleadings	 two questions arose for consideration	 namely	 (i) whether the Muttah was included in the assets of the Zamindari at the time of the Permanent Settlement	 and (ii) even if the said Muttah was excluded from the assets of the Zamindari	 whether the original grant comprised the tanks. The second point need not detain us	 for	 though Kumarayya	 1. held on the said point in favour of the appellants	 the Division Bench did not express any opinion thereon	 in view of its decision on the first point. As we are agreeing with the Division Bench on the first point	 it is not necessary for us to express our opinion on the second point. Apropos the first point	 Mr. R. Ganapathy Iyer	 learned counsel for the appellants	 contended that the said Muttah was granted to the prodecessor in interest of the appellants and respondents 2 to 5 long before the Permanent Settlement by the then Zamindar for public services	 Subject to a payment of favourable sent	 that	 subsequently	 the services were discontinued	 but the grant was continued subject to the payment of favourable rent	 that at the time of the Permanent Settlement the said Muttah was excluded from the assets of the Zamindari and that	 therefore	 the and Muttah was outside the scope of the notification issue by the Government under Madras Act XXVI of 1948. 184 Mr P. Ram Reddy	 learned counsel for the 1st respondent	 the State of Andhra Pradesh	 argued that the grant was subject to the payment of the full I assessment	 that the said assessment was paid partly in cash and partly by personal services to the Zamindar	 that: at the time of the Permanent Settlement the said Muttah was included in the assets of the Zamindari and that	 as it was a part of the Zamindari	 the Government	 even at the time of the Inam Settlement	 did not take any steps to enfranchise the same. Before we advert to the evidence	 it will be convenient to notice briefly	 at this stage	 the relevant law on the subject. Under section 3(b) of the Estates Abolition Act	 the entire estate	 including inter alia the tanks	 shall stand transferred to the Government and vest in it free of all encumbrances. This section would be attracted only if the suit land was part of an estate as defined under the Act. It cannot be disputed that if the land was included in the assets of the estate at the time of the Permanent Settlement	 it would be a part of the estate. Section 4 of Regulation XXV of 1802 enabled the Government to exclude from the said assets certain items. Under the relevant part of the said section	 the Government was empowered to exclude from the assets of the Zamindari at the time of the Permanent Settlement "lands exempt from the payment of public revenue and of all other lands paying only favourable quit rents". Besides these two categories of grants of lands	 namely	 lands exempt from payment of public revenue and lands paying only favourable quit rents	 there was another category of lands which were granted subject to the payment of favourable quit rents and also subject to the performance of certain services. The said services might be public or private services	 i.e.	 services to the community or services to the grantor. The third category of land was the subject matter of decision in Mahaboob Sarafarajawant Sri Raja Parthasarathy Appa Rao Bahadur Zamindari Garu vs The Secretary of State(1). Where lands in a zamindari were pre settlement inams granted on condition of rendering personal service to the zamindar and paying a favourable quit rent	 the Madras High Court held that as the grant was for services purely personal to the zamindar	 prima facie the inams formed part of the assets of the zamindari. The reason for this rule of presumption was stated by Sankaran Nair	 J. thus : According to these cases	 therefore	 when lands were held on condition that the holders were to render certain services which were purely personal to the Zamindar and in which the Government were not interested	 i.e.	 when such services had nothing to do with police or magisterial duties	 or did not concern the community or the villagers	 (1) (1913) I.L.R. Madras 620	 632. 185 then the Government were entitled to include in the zamindari assets for setting the peshkash the income from the lands allowed in lieu of such services which were not allowed for in the settlement; there is therefore no presumption they did not do so or treated the land as free from payment. " If the services were purely personal to the zamindari	 there was no reason why the Government would not have included the land in the assets of the zamindari for the purpose for fixing the peshkash. The same result was arrived at by a different process. Under section 4 of Regulation XXV of 1802	 lands paying only favourable quit rents might be excluded from the assets of the zamindari. If the grantee paid part of the assessment in cash and part in the shape of personal services to the zamindari	 it cannot be said that he held the lands paying only favourable quit rent to the zamindar. The aspect was brought out with clarity by Venkatasubba Rao	 J.	 in Secretary of State vs Rajah Vasireddy(1). Therein	 the learned Judge said thus : "In the case of personal service inams	 was there any reason at the time of the permanent settlement for treating them as "lands exempt from the payment of public revenue ?" The zamindar was receiving income from such lands	 though not of course in the shape of cash rent but in the shape of services; for the rendering of services was one mode of paying the rent. It was reasonable therefore	 to treat them at the settlement as revenue paying lands. " The legal position may therefore put thus; Under section 4 of Regulation XXV of 1802 the Government was empowered to exclude income from lakhiraj lands	 i.e.	 lands exempt from payment of public revenue and of all lands paying only favourable quit rents	 from the assets of the zamindari at the time of the permanent settlement. If the lands fall squarely within the said two categories	 there is a presumption that they were excluded from the asse 's of the zamindari. But if the grant of land was subject to performance of personal services to the zamindar or subject to the payment of favourable rents and also performance of personal service to the zamindar	 there is no such presumption. Indeed	 the presumption is that in such a case the income from the land was not excluded from the assets of the zamindari. The reason for the rule is that in one case the personal services are equated with the full assessment and in the other the favourable rent together with the personal services is equated with full assessment. If the zamindar in one shape or another was getting the full assessment on the lands	 there was no reason why the Government would have fore (1) A.I.R. 1929 Madras 676	 682. CI/66 13 186 gone its revenue by excluding such lands from the assets of the zamindari. With this background	 let us look at the documentary evidence adduced in the case. The relevant grant is not produced. The permanent settlement accounts are not before us. The sanad is not placed on the evidence. Indeed	 no document of a date prior to the permanent settlement is exhibited. The question falls to be decided only on the basis of the documents that came into existence subsequent to the permanent settlement. A 3 is a Kaifat dated April 22	1818 pertaining to 'manyams ' in the village of Jaggampadu. The relevant part of the document reads : "Thimmaraju Maharajulungaru got debited in the accounts of the said village	 and granted towards maintenance of Malireddy Gopalu for his service. He (Raja) fixed three hundred and fifty varahas and continued it so in the same manner receiving service from him. Afterwards Ammannagaru settled that cash has to be paid to the aforesaid 'diwanam ' (estate) and that the remaining shall be enjoyed as long as the service is done to the abovementioned people. In that manner it was enjoyed till last year. For the current year it was done as 'Amani ' (Government supervision). " This document shows that the grantee and his heirs were to enjoy the land so long as service was done to the Raja. The expression "abovementioned people" can only refer to the Raja '. The service	 therefore	 was only personal service to the Raja. A 4 is an order of the District Collector of Rajahmundry to the Estate Amin or Jaggampeta. This letter is dated September 5	 1829. This document shows that the agent of the Raja complained to the Collector that the Vantarlu of Thalluri village were granted lands assessed to a kist of Rs. 2140	 that for their service the late Raja granted remission of Rs. 620	 that they were paying every year the balance amount to the Raja	 that after the death of the late Raja they did not present themselves to the minor Raja but were doing service to some other zamindar and that	 therefore	 an order might be issued directing them to pay to the then Raja the entire assessment. On the basis of that request	 the Collector directed the Amin to make the necessary enquiries. This document clearly shows that the Zamindar 's agent asserted as early as 1928 that the Vantarlu were given remis 187 sion by the zamindar only for doing personal services to him. The complaint made by the agent that the Vantarlu	 instead of doing services to the minor Raja and attending on him	 were doing services to another zamindar is a clear indication that the services mentioned in that order were the personal services to the Raja. Reliance was placed on the statement in the said order "did not even give a reply to the message sent to them during the time of the dacoities and disturbances occurred recently	 asking them to be present before him" and contended that the services mentioned therein were the services for the purpose of putting down dacoities and disturbances	 which were services to the community. The said statement only describes when the notice was sent and not the nature of the services. Even if it described the nature of the services	 their personal attendance on the Raja during the troubled times could not make them any the less personal services to him. It was also said that the fact that the Collector 's interference was sought was indicative of the public nature of the services. The Collector in those days was a person of power and prestige in a district and there was nothing unusual in a zamindar seeking his help in the matter of collecting his dues from recalcitrant serviceholders. exhibit A 5 is an order dated December 11	 1829 issued by the Collector of Rajahmundry to the Amin of Jaggampeta estate in pursuance of a petition filed by the Manager of the estate. Assertions similar to those found in exhibit A 4 were made by the Manager of the Estate in the petition filed by him to the Collector which is referred to in exhibit A 5. exhibit A 7 is a petition dated April 24	 1830 filed by the Vantarlu of Thalluru village to the Enquiry Collector	 Rajahmundry. In. that petition it was admitted that the Raja granted a land to them assessed to a kist of 310 varahas for their living	 that they were doing services to the Samastanam	 that after the death of the Raja	 his widow told them that she would adopt a boy and that during his minority their services were not required but in view of their past services to her ancestors she would allow them to enjoy the land only on payment of half the assessment. After narrating all the subsequent events	 the petitioners went on to say : "From the time when Lakshminarasayya got the 'nimebadi ' done in that manner	 we the sharers by obtaining the goodwill of Sri Raja Vatchavayi Venkatapathigaru	 got the present and were paying 155 varahs to the estate and were in enjoyment of 50 putties of land assessed to a kist of Rs. 3101 as 'vasathi '. This petition also supports the case of the Government that the Vantarlu were doing personal services to the zamindar and that it was the zamindar who gave a remission of assessment in lieu of their services. The fact that Lakshminarasayya dispensed with 188 the services of the Vantarlu during the minority of the adopted son shows that the services were only personal to the zamindar	 for	 if they were public services	 the fact that the zamindar was a minor would be irrelevant. The learned counsel for the appellants contended on the basis of this document that whatever might be the conditions of the grant at the time of its origin before the permanent settlement	 the zamindar put an end to the services and confirmed the grant subject to the payment of favourable quit rent and	 therefore	 the grant squarely fell within the scope of section 4. of the said Regulation (XXV of 1802). But this document contains only an assertion on the part of the Vantarlu : and even if that assertion be true	 it would only show that Lakshminarasayya did not dispense with the services for good but only exempted the Vantarlu from doing the services till the minor zamindar attained majority. exhibit A 16 dated November 9	 dated February 27	 1832 and exhibit A 18 dated March 8	 1833 are similar orders issued by the Collector to the Amin of Jaggampeta. They contain recitals similar to those contained in Exs. A 3	 A 4 and A 5. exhibit A 10 is an order dated July 7	 1831 issued by the Collector to the Amin of Jaggampeta. Therein	 when the Manager of the estate resumed the land and gave it to another on the ground that the Vantarlu were not paying the assessments	 the Collector directed that they should be put back in possession of the said land. But	 in doing so	 the Collector did not say that the Zamindar had no right to resume the land but only observed that it did not do any credit to the estate to dispossess Muttadars of the land and grant it to some one else. This document does not throw much light on the question raised before us. Lastly	 we have the fact that the Government did not take any steps to enfranchise the land. For the default of the Government	 no doubt the appellants cannot be made to suffer. But that circumstance probablises the contention of the Government that the Muttah was not included in the assets of the zamindari	 for	 if included it is not likely that the Government would not have enfranchised it and imposed assessment thereon. Strong reliance was placed on the expressions "Vantarlu" and "manyam" found in some of the documents and an argument was made that the said expressions indicated that the services were public services. The expression "manyam" is found in exhibit In Wilson 's Glossary "manyam" is defined thus : "Land in the south of India	 held either at a low assessment	 or altogether free	 in consideration of services done to the state or community	 as in the case of the officers. 189 and servants of a village. . the term is also laxly applied to any free grant or perquisite held in hereditary right by members of a village community. " The expression "manyam" does not	 therefore	 necessarily mean a grant for public services. It is also used in a loose sense to indicate an inam. That apart	 the word "manyam" is only found in a Kaifiat of 1818 and in no other ducument it finds a place. Be that as it may	 such an ambiguous expression in a solitary document which came into existence in 1818 cannot outweigh the other evidence which we have considered in detail. Nor does the expression "Vantarlu" indicate public servants. It means "foot servants"; it may also be used to denote a sepoy. Whatever may be its meaning	 the name is not decisive of the nature of the service. A foot servant or a sepoy could certainly do personal service to a zamindar : he might look after his safety. The following facts emerge from a consideration of the docu mentary evidence. The grant was a pre settlement grant. The land was granted to the Vantarlu subject to the payment of favourable rent and also subject to the performance of personal services to the zamindar. The Government	 either before the permanent settlement or subsequent thereto	 never claimed a right to resume the same. Indeed	 it was the zamindar who was giving remissions to the Vantarlu whenever their services were not required. There is a presumption that such a land was not excluded from the assets of the zamindari and the evidence adduced in the case not only does not rebut that presumption but also	 to some extent	 supports it. We	 therefore	 agree with the Division Bench of the High Court holding that the Vantari Muttah of the appellants was part of the Jaggampeta estate and was	 therefore	 covered by the notification issued by the Government under the Estates Abolition Act	 1948. In the result	 the appeal fails and is dismissed with costs of the first respondent. G.C. Appeal dismissed.

The appellants and respondents 2 to 5 were owners of Jaggamapeta estate in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. The Vantari Muttah '	 a piece of land about 400 acres in area	 was granted to their predecessor in interest in return for services as vantarlu ' or 'foot set	#ants ' long before the permanent settlement. After the passing of the Madras Estates	 (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act XXVI of 1948 dispute arose whether the land formed part of the Jaggampeta estate for if it did not	 the Act would not apply to it. After various stages of litigation a Division Bench of the High Court decided against the apellants. They came to this Court with special leave. it was contended on behalf of the appellants that the said Muttah was granted to their predecessor in interesi before the permanent settlement by the then Zamindar for public services subject to a payment of favourable rent	 that	 subsequently	 the services were discontinued	but the grant was continued subject to the payment of favourable rent	 that at the time of the permanent settlement the said Mutta was excluded from the assets of the Zamindari and that therefore the said Muttah. was outside the scope of the notification issued by the Government under Madras Act XXVI of 1948. On behalf of the respondent State it was urged that the grant was subject to the payment of the full asses men		 that the said assessment was paid partly in cash and partly by personal services to the	 Zamindar	 that at the time of the Permanent Settlement the said Muttah was included in the assets of the Zamindari and that as it was a part of the Zamindari the Government at the time of the Inam Settlement did not take any steps to enfranchise the same. HELD:(i) Under section 4 of the Regulation XXV of 1802 the Government was empowered to exclude income from lakhiraj lands i.e. lands exempt from payment of public revenue and of all lands paying only favouable quit rents	 from the assets of the Zamindari at the time of the Permanent Settlement. If the lands fall squarely within the mid two categories	 there is a presumption that they we re excluded from the assets of the Zamindari. But if the grant of land was subject to performance of personal services to the Zamindar or subject to the payment of favourable rents and also performance of personal services to the Zamindar	 there is no such presumption. Indeed the presumption is that in such a case the income from the land was not excluded from the assets of the Zamindari. The reason for the rule is that in one case the personal service are equated with the	 full assessment and in the other 182 the favourable rent together with the personal services is equated with full assessment. If the Zamindar in one shape or another was getting the full assessment on the lands there was no reason why the Government would have foregone its revenue by excluding such lands from the assets of the Zamindari. [185 F] Mahaboob Sarafarajewant Sri Raja Parthasarathy Appa Rao Bahadur Zamindari Garu vs The Secretary of State	 Mad. 620 and Secretary of State	 vs Rejah Vasiredy	 A.I.R. 1929 Mad. 676	 referred to. (ii) The grant in the present case was a pre settlement grant. The land was granted to the Vantarlu subject to the payment of favourable rent and also subject to the performance of personal services to the Zamindar. The Government either before the permanent settlement or subsequent thereto never claimed a right to resume the same. Indeed it was the Zamindar who was giving remissions to the Vantarlu Whenever their services were not required. There is a presumption that such I land was not excluded from the assets of the Zamindari and the evidence adduced in the case not only did not rebut that presumption but also to some extent supported it. The Division Bench of the High Court was therefore right in holding that the Vantari Muttah was part of the estate of the appellants and respondents 2 to 5 and was therefore	 covered by the notification issued by the Government under the Estates Abolition Act	 1948. [189 D]