Judgment :- 1. By order in the petition for review the judgment has been set aside and the matter reheard. The decision of this court in 1971 KLT. 978 is no longer applicable by reason of amendment of the definition of debt in S.2 of the Kerala Act 11 of 1970 by Ordinance No.1 of 1973 subsequently replaced by Act 13 of 1973. The amendment is retrospective in its operation and for that reason the matter requires to be reconsidered. Hence we set aside the decision of the Court below to consider the question whether the judgment-debtor is an agriculturist. That the debt would otherwise come within the scope of the Act is clear from what we have stated here. In the result the appeal is allowed to the limited extent of remanding the matter to the court below to consider whether the judgment-debtor is an agriculturist and to dispose of the matter in the light of such finding. Parties will suffer their costs in the appeal.