Venkataramana Rao, J.

1. The question raised in these second appeals is as regards the power of a father to make a gift of a portion of joint family Immovable property in favour of his daughter or daughters daughter. The plaintiffs in O.S. Nos. 1185, 1187 and 1188 of 1926, out of which second appeals 217, 220 and 218 respectively arise, are the sisters of the second defendant, and the plaintiff in O.S. No. 1186 of 1926 is the daughter of another sister of the second defendant. The second defendant is the son of one Gavani Ramaswami. The said Ramaswami and his son Gopala Rao and the second defendant were members of an undivided Hindu family. On the 26th August, 1925, the said Ramaswami executed 4 deeds of gift in favour of the plaintiffs in the said suits giving them each about 2 acres of wet land and put them in possession of the same. The first defendant is a creditor who obtained a decree against the second defendant in O.S. No. 373 of 1925 on the file of the Additional District Munsifs Court, Tenali. He filed the said suit on the 18th of June, 1925, and applied for an order of attachment before judgment of the second defendants share in the joint family property. But the