1. This Revision was directed to be placed before the Full Bench to consider the correctness of certain observations in the ruling of a Division Bench of this Court in Kunhi Moyin v. Pathumma (1976 KLT. 87). The Revision has been preferred by the divorced wife of the respondent. (The parties are Ezhavas, governed, at the -relevant lime, by the Travancore Ezhava Act 1100). She filed M. C, No. 29 of 1967 before

the I Class Magistrate's Court, Neyyattinkara, for maintenance under S.488 of the Criminal Procedure Code, for herself and her three children on the ground of neglect by the respondent. Maintenance was decreed at the rate of Rs.160/-per mensem for all the four together. The respondent thereafter filed the Ezhava Summary No. 3 of 1968 on the file of the Munsiff's Court Trivandrum, for dissolution of his marriage with the petitioner under S.8 of the Travancore Ezhava Act. A decree for dissolution was passed on 31-3-1970. That, Section requires that the petitioner shall, in all cases, offer in the petition, reasonable compensation to the respondent except where such respondent has changed his or her religion, S.9 further provides that the reasonableness of the compens