JUDGMENT :

1. The defendant Nos. 18 & 20 in O.S. No. 1129/1986 on the files of the First Additional Sub Court, Thrissur, have filed this appeal challenging the preliminary decree and judgment rendered by the said Court on 18.07.2011.

2. Two members of the Joint Hindu Family who had been following Cochin Nair Act, had instituted the suit on 20.10.1986 for partition of the plaint ‘A’ & ‘B’ scheduled properties which they claimed to be Thavazhi properties. On 31.03.1997, the learned Sub Judge had passed a preliminary decree and judgment directing the partition of plaint ‘A’ & ‘B’ scheduled properties into 910 shares allotting 56 shares each to the first plaintiff and defendants 39, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7. The defendants 19 to 28 were allotted 49 shares each, whereas 35 shares each were set apart to plaintiff No.2, defendants 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18. The above decree and judgment were challenged before this Court in A.S.No.176/1998 by the 37^th defendant, and A.S.No.407/1998 by the defendants 7 & 18. A Division Bench of this Court, as per the judgment rendered on 06.12.2010, allowed the appeal, set aside the preliminary decree and remanded the matter to the Trial Court for passi