Sadasiva Aiyar, J.

1. The defendants Nos. 3 to 6 are the appellants before us. The suit was by a reversioner for a declaration that the two alienations of 1881 and 1889 made by a widow, Aramvalarthammal, under Exhibits I and II (b) respectively are invalid against the minor plaintiff. Aramvalarthammal died in 1899, and the next reversioners are her daughters, defendants Nos. 1 and 2. The plaintiff is the adopted son of the 1st defendant, having been adopted in May 1903. The suit was brought in 1907 within five years of the plaintiffs adoption but more than 12 years from the dates of the alienations by the plaintiffs maternal grand-mother, Aramvalarthammal. The lower appellate court decreed the plaintiffs suit on the following findings and reasonings:

(a) The alienations under Exhibits I and II(b) were not made for purposes binding on the reversioner.

(b) Though the sale under Exhibit I was attested by the next presumptive male reversioner (Aramvalarthammars brother) and though the next presumptive female reversioners, the daughters, assented to the alienation, and though the male reversioner, Chinna Aiyavu Aiyar, who attested Exhibit I, owned the land next to the alienated lan