Kuppuswami Ayyar, J.

1. This is an appeal by a person who purchased the properties of an insolvent under a sale deed executed subsequent to the filing of the petition to adjudge him an insolvent and prior to the passing of the order of adjudication, against the order on a petition filed under Section 1, Provincial Insolvency Act, for a declaration that he has a valid title to them. The properties which he purchased as well as other properties were brought for sale in execution of a decree obtained against the insolvent debtor before the petition to adjudge him an insolvent was filed. They were all sold in execution, but during the pendency of the insolvency proceedings, the debtor by selling the properties in dispute to the appellant for Rs. 1750 and by selling other properties for Rs. 4250 or so to another person, raised Rs. 6000 and directed the same to be paid into Court for getting the court sale set aside. The money was accordingly deposited by the appellant and the other purchaser and the sale was set aside. This was on 20th January 1935. Fifteen days later the order of adjudication was passed. Even before the appellant deposited the money into the executing Court, the in