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With great respect. I am unable to agree with the opinion of the Orissa High Court, Sansir Patelin v. Satyabati Naikanj, AIR 1958 Orissa 75, where their Lordships have expressed their disagreement with view of Viswanatha Sastri, J. with regard to the Hindu female's right to hold in absolute state the property which is in the trespasser's possession. That obviously is to give a narrow meaning to the word "possession" unlike Viswanatha Sastri, J. who construed it as "ownership."

4. Corning to the expression "shall be deemed always to have been held", I may also explain further that if the Legislature had used the words ''shall be deemed always to have been held" after the words "shall be held" in Section 14, that section would have been expressly retrospective. That expression occurs as a rule in a declaratory Act which states that the law must be deemed in the past also to have been the same as it is enacted to be under the particular statute or under the particular section, but in a remedial statute or remedial section of a retrospective character those words may not occur and yet a remedial statute may also be of a retrospective character in which event its field of operation converges upon the field of operation of a declaratory statute.