Leach, C.J.

1. The respondent is an inamdar and in 1934 filed a number of suits in the Court of the District Munsif of Tanjore for the ejectment of tenants. He claimed that he was the owner of the kudiwaram rights and that the defendants had refused to surrender to him possession of the lands which they were cultivating. At the time the suits were filed the respondent was entitled in law to institute the suits in the District Munsifs Court and there to substantiate his claim that he possessed the kudiwaram rights. During the pendency of the suits, the Legislature amended the Estates Land Act, 1908, and the amendment had the effect of making the respondents inam an estate within the meaning of the Act, which meant that the amendment took away the right of the Civil Court to grant a decree for ejectment. The only course left to the respondent was to apply to the Revenue Court for an order for compensation for loss of the kudiwaram rights, if he possessed them. Certain of the suits were tried before the amendment of the Act and decrees were obtained. In respect of the suits which were undecided at the time of the amendment the District Munsif returned the plaints to the respond