1. This revision petition has been preferied by the second defendant in O.S. No 61 of 1977 on the file of the Court of the District Munsif, Melur. The respondent herein, who is the plaintiff, is the wife of the first defendant, second respondent herein, and the mother of the second defendant-petitioner herein. She instituted the suit to obtain maintenance, past and future from the first defendant and inter alia to ask for a charge being created on the properties which belonged to the erstwhile joint farrily comprising of the defendants. While the suit has been instituted in the year 1977, the first defendant and the petitioner herein (second defendant) had effected a partition between themselves of the family properties under a partition deed, dated 4th April, 1975, Ex.B2 being a registration copy of the partition deed. In the said partition, the plaint A Schedule properties have been allotted to the first defendant-second respondent herein and the plaint B schedule properties have been allotted to the petitioner herein. In her suit the first respondent has alleged that with a view to deprive her of the maintenance legitimately due to her, the first defendant and the pet