Varadachariar, J.

1. This second appeal arises out of a suit brought by two minors for a declaration that the properties which according to them fell to their shares at the partition evidenced by Ex. A are not liable to be seized in execution of the decree obtained against their father in S.C.S. No. 831 of 1928 on the file of the Sub-Court of Tinnevelly. The lower appellate court granted the declaration; hence this appeal by the decree-holder. The partition under Ex. A was effected soon after the passing of the decree in the small cause suit and in such suspicious circumstances that both the lower courts have taken the view that it must have been brought about for the very purpose of preventing the decree-holder in the small cause suit from executing his decree against the properties that might be allotted to the shares of the minor sons. In that sense, the partition may be said to be fraudulent or mala fide, and I see no reason to differ from that conclusion, though I must point out that that conclusion can be based only upon inferences from the proximity of dates and the fact that the plaintiffs being minors, there was no other reason for partition at that particular junct