JUDGMENT

UNTWALIA, J.:— This appeal by certificate is by the defendants. It arises out of a suit for partition filed by the plaintiffs-respondents. The suit was decreed in part by the trial court. The Patna High Court modified the decree of the trial court in some respects in favour of the plaintiffs. The defendants have come up to this Court.

2. Mr. S. N. Prasad appearing for the appellants pressed this appeal in regard to only two items of properties. (1) the house at Sadisopore, the ancestral village home of the parties; and (2) certain bakasht lands which had become the kasht of the intermediary under S. 6 of the Bihar Land Reforms Act. Learned counsel submitted that these two properties were the self-acquired properties of the appellants ancestors, the trial court was right in holding that the house at Sadisopore was such a property and both the courts below were wrong in holding that the bakasht lands were not the self-acquired properties.

3. It appears from the judgments of the courts below that by and large both the properties and specially the house, leaving aside the land upon which it stood, were acquired by Sheosaran Lal who had a large amount of practice as a lawyer at A