FAKKIR MOHAMMED, J. :- These applications have come by way of reference made by the learned, single Judge, Singaravelu, J., under the following circumstances :

2. The first plaintiff, one Sathappan, the quondam minor represented by his mother Meenakshi Achi as next friend, filed C. S. No. 188 of l972 on the file of this Court for partition and separate possession of his half share, for a declaration that the alienations made by the first defendant, who is the father of the first plaintiff, are void and not binding on the first plaintiff and for certain other consequential reliefs as against 72 defendants. Large items of properties described in eight schedules are the subject matter of the suit. Pending suit, the quondam minor first plaintiff attained majority. The father, first defendant, filed Application No. 4390 of 1982 in Nov., 1982 for passing a decree in terms of the compromise dated 30-8-1981. It was stated in the affidavit in support of that application that the first defendant had executed a partial partition deed of his own volition in 1972 in which he had settled all valuable immovable properties in favour of the first plaintiff, that since the plaintiffs institu