The appellant as the President of the Nurani Grama Jana Sabha, Nurani in Palghat seeks to set aside under section 84(3) of the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, an order of the District Judge of South Malabar, holding that the three temples situated in that village are institutions to which the Act applies. The learned District Judge has set out the history of the institutions and his findings regarding certain aspects were not seriously canvassed before us. He expressed the opinion that the temples in question belong to the Nurani Grama Samuham consisting of the Nurani villagers, who manage the affairs of the temple by an elected committee. On behalf of the Endowments Board, the respondent in this appeal, this conclusion is not controverted, and it therefore becomes unnecessary to trace the history of the institutions and how they are being managed. That the Nurani Grama Samuham consists of a fluctuating body of villagers who’ are competent to hold and own property is also conceded on the side of the respondent and we need not therefore elaborate upon the nature of the endowment. In Sundara Ayyar’s Malabar Law, at pages 263 and 264, the learned author discus