Cultivable land, waste lands covered with shrubs, jungle and the like cannot be held to be uncultivable merely on that account or on account of their being not cultivated for a long time. Land which can be brought under cultivation is cultiv-able land unless some provision of law provides for holding it otherwise in certain circumstances, Athamanthaswami Devasthanam v. K. Gopalaswami, AIR 1965 SC 338 (340): (1964) 3 SCR 736. [T.N. Estates Land Act, 1908, (1 of 1908), s. 3(16)]
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