1. These are two connected appeals from the judgments and decrees of the District Munsiff, Mavelikara in O.S. 104 of 1113. The 1st defendant is the appellant in A.S. 703 of 1119 and plaintiffs 1 to 7,10,11,13 to 17 and the 8th defendant are the appellants in A.S. 704 of 1119.

2. A.S. 703 of 1119 may first be considered. The suit is for partition. According to the plaintiffs the plaint schedule properties are the sub-tarwad properties of plaintiffs and defendants 1 to 37 and they are entitled to 17/54 share over these properties. The 1st defendant contended that plaint B schedule items 5 to 32 which are properties obtained under two gift deeds Exts. A and B are not sub-tarwad properties liable for division. According him the 1st plaintiff, defendants 1 to 4 and their deceased sisters Kunju Amma and Pappi Amma were alone entitled to these properties. (Vide para 15 of the 1st defendant's written statement). The court below found that Exts. A and B properties are sub-tarwad properties. This finding of the learned Munsiff is being challenged in appeal. We have therefore to determine in this appeal the nature of the rights that the donees took under Exts. A and B gift deeds; w