RAJAMANNAR, C. J. :- These are appeals from the judgment of Rajagopalan, J., dated 11-9-1950 in two suits C. S. Nos. 494 and 493 of 1949 on the file of the Original Side of this Court. The Rajah of Vizianagaram is the plaintiff in both the suits. The four defendants in each suit are the same, though there is a slight difference in their rank. They are :

1. Maharaj Kumar Dr. Sir Vijaya Anand Gajapathi Raj, the paternal uncle of the plaintiff, hereinafter referred to in this judgment as Vijaya,

2. Sri Rani Lalitha Kumari Devi, Dowager Maharani of Vizianagaram, his grandmother, hereinafter referred to as the Dowager Maharani,

3. Sri Rani Vidyavathi Devi, Rani Saheba of Vizianagaram, his mother, and

4. Raj Kumar Sri Visweswar Gajapathi Raj, his brother.

2. It is common ground that originally the Vizianagaram Zamindari (which included the estate of Kasipuram), was an impartible estate. A sanad was granted under the Permanent Settlement Regulation to Narayana Gajapathi Raj in 1803. The following is the genealogy of the Vizianagaram family in so far as it is material for these appeals :

3. Narayan Gajapathi Raj died in 1845 and was succeeded by his son Sir Viziarama Gajapathi Raj who d