This second appeal raises a question relating to validity of a gift of a reasonable portion of the joint family property by a father in favour of his daughter, a few years before her marriage. The gift in question was made by the father of the plaintiff, one Mahalinga Nadar, under Exhibit P-1, dated 3rd February, 1921. Under that document the donor gave a life estate to the first defendant, his wife, and a vested remainder to the plaintiff in 3 acres and 17 cents of dry land and a house. The first defendant was married by the said Mahalinga Nadar, as his first wife, who was no other than the first defendant’s sister, was sickly. As the two wives of Mahalinga Nadar could not pull on together, the first defendant began to live separately with her daughter, the plaintiff herein, and in 1921 as stated above, Mahalinga made a gift of the property in the manner mentioned above. Sometime after the death of the donor, the first defendant executed a release deed in respect of the said property in favour of defendants 3 and 4, the sons of Mahalinga Nadar by the first wife under D-3, dated 15th November, 1929. This led the plaintiff to institute the suit for a declaration of her tit