K.S. Bakthavatsalam, J.

1. These 12 Civil Revision Petitions (except C.R.P. No. 3127 of 1989) are preferred under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, challenging the appointment of trustees for the Trust called M.K.N. Madarasa of Adiramapatnam by the learned District Judge, West Thanjavur of Thanjavur in O.S. No. 21 of 1952 as modified as S. No. 6 of 1970, dated 5.9.1989.

2. C.R.P. No.3127 of 1989 is filed for transferring the proceedings on the file of the first respondent herein, relating to the appointment of trustees for the trust M.K.N. Madarasa of Adiramapatnam.

3. The Trust which is the subject matter of these petitions known as M.K.N. Madarasa of Adiramapatnam is a Muslim Trust with large endowments created by one Haji Khader Mohideen Maracair and his three brothers under two deeds of endowment dated 16.12.1900 and 6.4.1901. Undo the said deeds, the four donors constituted themselves as trustees for life and it was intended that their successors in their male line should be hereditary trustees one from each of the three branches in the male line. As one of the brothers, namely, Haji Khader Mohideen Maracair died without male issue, the endowments were managed by the