1. The question of law raised in this second appeal is whether a deed of gift executed by the plaintiffs father in favour of the 1st defendant, the daughter of the donors deceased undivided brother, is valid and binding as against the plaintiff, the donors son, according to the Hindu Law. The facts found are that after the death of the 1st defendants father she and her mother, the 2nd defendant, were under the protection of the plaintiffs father who by survivorship became possessed of the whole of the property which formerly belonged to him and the 1st defendants father. He maintained the 1st defendant and gave her in marriage, and some years afterwards executed the disputed deed of gift, Exhibit I, in 1897. The plaintiff was and still is a minor. The total extent of the family property in the hands of the plaintiffs father and the value of the property comprised in Exihibit I are in dispute. The finding of the lower courts is that the land given under Exhibit I is worth Rs. 400, and that the aggregate of the family property at the time of the gift was worth Rs. 2,400, so that the gift to the 1st defendant was of one-sixth of the property in the hands of the donor. We must