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Other tenure, the expression 'other tenure' in the explanation should ordinarily be construed 'ejus-dem generis' with a service tenure owing to the reason that these service tenures usually are resumable and in case of resumable tenures the reversionary rights in the land remains in the grantee and therefore even if such resumable tenures are excluded from the grant, in substance the grant can be deemed to be of the whole village, District Board, Tanjore v. N.K. Noor Mohd., AIR 1953 SC 446. [T.N. Estates Land Act (1 of 1968), s. 3(d), Exp. I]