widow of the deceased who is the most important beneficiary under the Act. The fact that under the Act the Hindu widow gets right ... surviving no male heir but only two widows and a widow by a pre-deceased son. The widow of the pre-deceased son instituted
original authorities. So far as the Dayabhaga is concerned, the rights of widows are dealt with in Ch. XI, Sections 1, verse ... authority for such a proposition.
26. Then; Narada denies all rights to the widow in her husband's property. See Jolly's edition
upon by the author of that treatise in discussing the widow's right of succession. I will refer two of those text only,--namely ... sums up his argument in support of the widow's right to succeed to the entire property of her husband, for which purpose
entitled to enjoy it according to the rights of a Hindu widow, which rights it appears to me to be absolutely impossible to define ... widow into two classes; one being her stridhan and the other her husband's estate over which she has the widow's right
other schools. As to the nature of the right of a widow, when her husband has left sons, the various schools differ, or may differ ... marriage ceases on his demise. But the cessation of the widows right of property, if there be male issue, appears only from the law ordaining
from the income of the Budhnath's estate, the widows had a right to dispose of the income at their own pleasure, and although ... settled law throughout India that a widow holding a Hindu widow's estate has a right to alienate to the extent
held that a widow would under Section 2 , Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act (XV [15] of 1856) lose only such rights ... first husband. Section 2 did not circumscribe the rights of the widow to succeed to property which might be left there, after
deceased's property will, so far as the widow's right of recourse to it is concerned, take the place of the property ... this case where the widow succeeded, it appears that the widow had asserted her right to maintenance and objected to the conveyance of the property
whole estate in respect of the wife. Therefore, the widow's right must be affirmed to extend to the whole, estate". Thus Vrihat ... like manner, as they would have succeeded if the widow's right had never taken effect equally succeed to the residue of the estate
before the adoption took place, supersede or destroy her rights as widow; Mt. Bhuban Moyi v. Ram Kissen ... reversioner proposes to relinquish his interest in {favour of the widow the widow's inter-lest is not thereby enlarged since the reversioner
