Facts :-

The two suits which have given rise to the present appeals were instituted, one in November 1904 in the High Court of Calcutta, in its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, the other in the Court of the Subordinate Judge of the district of 24-Pergunnahs in Bengal.

The parties to this protracted litigation, with the exception of the appellant Nrityamoni Dassi and the other female defendants, are the descendants of one Guru Charan Sen, a Hindu inhabitant of Calcutta, who died in the year 1872, leaving him surviving three sons named respectively Baney Madhub Sen, Money Madhub Sen and Chuni Lall Sen, and a widow, Surat Kumari Dassi. The appellant is the widow of Baney Madhub who died in 1897.

Guru Charan Sen appears to have been at one period of his life a very wealthy man, and was possessed of considerable house property in Calcutta, besides some lands in the village of Panihati in the district of Nuddea. Among the house property were eight houses situated in Banstollah Street and its vicinity. Besides these and several others he owned 102, Cotton Street, and 27, Burtollah Street.

Between 1855 and 1857 Guru Charan Sen became heavily involved in debt, one of his principal credito