1. The only declaratory relief to which a contingent reversioner is ordinarily entitled when he disputes the alienation by qualified female heirs, is that those alienations are not binding beyond the life-time of the qualified female owner or owners. The other declarations given by the first Court decree (confirmed by the Appellate Court), namely, that the plaintiff be declared entitled to inherit the property after the death of defendants Nos. 1 and 2" and "that 3rd defendant has no interest, etc.", were unnecessary and the discretion of the Courts as to declaratory reliefs was not exercised properly in granting those two declarations. The decrees will be modified by striking out the words relating to the above two declarations. The decrees are confirmed in other respects. As regards the contention that the release, Exhibit I, was invalid under Hindu Law, the only new argument brought forward by appellants learned Vakil for re-considering our decision in Thangavelu Pillai v. Doraisami Pillai 26 Ind. Cas. 211 : 27 M.L.J. 272 : 16 M.L.T. 393 was that the Hindu Law requires for the validity of a relinquishment by a co-parcener of his interest in the joint family property, not