S. RAMACHANDRA IYER, Offg. C. J.:- The appellant in these appeals is the wife of one Venkatachalam Chettiar, a businessman belonging to the Nattukotti Chetti community, who had an ancestral family money-lending business and considerable properties in Burma, besides other properties in this country. In accordance with the custom of the community moneys by way of Stridhana and Seermurai were presented to the appellant by her father at the time of her marriage and those moneys were entrusted to her father-in-law for the purpose of investment and improvement of his business at Burma. It is stated that moneys entrusted came to Rs.16,575-0-3 on 13th April, 1940 and that the amount due at present would be very much above Rs.20-000. It was held by this court in several cases that moneys presented to a bride on the occasion of marriage, in accordance with the custom of the community, which is handed over to the husbands people for the purpose of investment is held in trust by the person, who receives the moneys on her behalf, the trustee haying a power to invest the trust monies in his own business.

2. In the year 1943, the appellants son filed O.S. No.48 of 1943 on the file of the