1. These are appeals in suits filed on judgments obtained in the Colombo Court against a partnership whose, members were the defendants or their predecessors-in-interest. The lower Court has found that the partnership did not submit to the jurisdiction of the Colombo Court, but as against some of the defendants, there was jurisdiction because they individually submitted to that jurisdiction. It has been held in Ramanathan Chettiar v. Kalimuthu Pillai [1914] 37 Mad. 163; and: also in Janoo Hassain Sait v. Mohamad Ohuthu A.I.R. 1925 Mad. 155, that the execution of a power of attorney authorizing an agent to conduct litigation in a foreign Court is a submission to jurisdiction. In the present case, it is clear from the deed of partnership and from the power of attorney by one of the managing partners, Exs. H and J, that the holder of the power was authorized to file suits, to defend suits and to carry on all manner of proceedings in the Courts in Ceylon. It is suggested for the respondents that these documents were not in force at the time these suits were filed, because the partnership has been dissolved. The only evidence we have on this point is the statement of the plainti