Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context-- (a) "estate", "landholder", "private land" and "ryoti land" shall have the same respective meanings as in the Tamil Nadu Estates Land Act, 1908, and "communal land" means any land of the description mentioned in section 3, clause (16), sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b), of that Act ; (b) "forest land" includes any waste land containing trees and shrubs, pasture land and any other class of land declared by the State Government to be forest land by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette ; (c) "impartible estate" means any estate included in the Schedule to the Tamil Nadu Impartible Estates Act, 1904, or subsequently declared to be an impartible estate within the meaning of that Act, by an Act of the Legislature.