The points urged for the appellants in appeals Nos. 116 to 119 are (1) Venkatagiri Estate was, impartible by custom that impartibility was recognized when disputes arose in 1889, that impartibility continued under the Madras Impartible Estates Act of 1904 but ceased when the Estate vested in the Government on September 7, 1949; (2) In these circumstances, the compensation Will not bear the character of impartibility as the property,, became the property of the joint family, the coparcenary having continued all through 294 (3)Section 45 and other provisions of the Act are ultra vires the State Legislature for want of legislative competence inasmuch as the said Legislature had no power to enact a law disturbing the rights of a joint family and also because the provisions of section 45 are discriminatory and offend article 14 of the Constitution as they provide for the maintenanceholders to get 1/5th out of the compensation while the proprietor and his sons are to get 4/5ths out of it after satisfying the claims of the creditors; (4) The appellants are not maintenanceholders, but creditors; (5) The amount of peishkush payable by the Venkatagiri Estate to the Government was not to be deducted from the compensation when calculating maintenance amount payable to the maintenance.