Madhavan Nair, J.

1. This is an appeal against the order of the District Judge of Tinnevelly in C.M.P. No. 566 of 1918 on his file in which the Official Receiver of Tinnevelly was the petitioner. The appellants, who were respondents Nos. 1 to 3 in the lower Court had brought a suit, O.S. No. 206 of 1913, in the District Munsifs Court of Ambasamudram against seven defendants, all members of a joint Hindu family. Pending the suit they applied for and got an attachment before judgment of the joint family properties. The suit was compromised and a razi decree Ex. I, was passed on the 23rd of September 1914 which provided that the defendants therein should pay into Court Rs. 2,100 with interest within the 15th of April 1915 and that, in default, the attached properties might be sold and the amount realised. It also provided that the attachment before judgment which has already been made would continue until the amount fixed by the decree was paid. Defendants Nos. 1 and 7 in that suit died subsequent to the decree. After their deaths an execution application was filed in the District Munsifs Court by the decree-holders, the present appellants, and an order for sale of the attached