Women’s maintenance Property Right in India
Keywords:
Women, Property, maintenance gratisAbstract
The Karta can grant some property to a member of the family for his or her maintenance. He has the power to grant absolutely some property to a female in the satisfaction of her claim of maintenance. A Hindu female can also be granted property for her maintenance under a family arrangement, or under a partition. "The right of a Hindu widow to get maintenance out of the joint family property is an indefinite right, yet it is a right and she does not get maintenance gratis or by way of charity. She gets it in her right under Hindu law. Where property was given to the woman by way of maintenance over which she had a right, her possession was accepted, it becomes her absolute property? If she is put in possession of certain properties in satisfaction of that right for her life, she is not a trespasser of property? If there are some restrictive clauses in the instrument conferring limited right on her, by virtue of Section” 14(1), she becomes its absolute owner? The Supreme Court has confirmed this view.“ In Palchuri Henumayyayya v.
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