1. The plaintiffs who lost in both the courts below are the appellants herein. The suit

O.S. No. 1175 of 1978 was filed in the District Munsifs Court, Villupuram, for passing a preliminary decree and final decree directing the defendants to pay the plaintiffs, personally and also out of the charged properties set out in the plaint, a sum of Rs.4,142.50, stating as under: -

The respondents herein executed a sale deed in favour of the second plaintiff/second appellant under Exhibit A-1 dated 26. 1978 for a consideration of Rs.21,000 out of which Rs.3,000 was paid by the second appellant on the date of the sale deed. The respondents requested the appellants to postpone the registration of the sale deed till after the marriage of their daughter was finalised. The second appellant therefore did not get the sale deed registered immediately. The registration was being postponed on the pretext that the marriage of the respondents daughter had not been finalised. The appellants took the respondents word and abstained from presenting the document for registration expecting the respondents to give their final consent for registration of sale deed. In fact, on 17. 1978 the first app