existing right in the widow, The
widow would be getting the property in virtue of her pre-
existing right, the instrument giving the property being ... legal obligation to maintain the widow. [286 D]
(ii) though the widow's right to maintenance is not a
right to property
rightly deemed a valid consideration so far as it may extend.
11. I refrain from expressing any opinion as to the rights of a widow ... widow except the widow of a father, a distinction may be taken, and has been pressed upon us, as to her rights in ordinary cases
would become entitled to the same rights and subject to the same obligations, the rights including a right by her husband to interdict an alienation ... show that the right of maintenance was a lesser right the better right being a share and a right to partition such share must
heirs to a deceased male e.g. widow, son's widow and grandson's widow. Thereby a change was made in the general ... right of partition. From this they proceeded to say that as such a right has been given to a widow under
leaving behind two widows, one daughter and one brother. The senior widow's children and the junior widow alleged that they were in peaceful ... right to retain possession is a substantial right, and that the right being a real one, the heirs of the' widows were entitled
right of maintenance and the extent to which it conferred a right in relation to property and observed that the right of the widow ... testator and the only right that Kalawati had in relation to the property was the right of maintenance as the widow of a pre-deceased
with it the legal
obligation to maintain the widow.
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(2) Though the widow's right to maintenance is
not a right to property ... existing right in
the widow. The widow would be getting the property in
virtue of her pre-existing right, the instrument giving
the property being
Hindu law-Widow-Surrender of estate after third persons have
acquired title by adverse possession against widow-Validity-
Right of reversioner to recover possession before ... appellants is not right when
he says that as adverse possession extinguished the rights
of the widow, no fresh extinction by an act of surrender
with it the legal obligation to maintain
the widow.
(2) though the widow's right to maintenance is not a right to property ... widow was entitled as
of right, to be maintained out of those properties. The right of a Hindu
widow to be maintained
coparcener--Nature of
interest of widow--Widow not claiming partition during the
life time--Death of widow--Whether interest in Joint family
property passes--Liability ... further held that the Hindu widow's. estate created by
s. 3(2) of the Hindu Widows Rights to Property
