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The law under these papers has moved. The Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Evidence Act were replaced by the BNS, BNSS and BSA on 1 July 2024; adultery (section 497) was struck down on 27 September 2018 and is not in the BNS. The Maternity Benefit Act, the Factories Act and the Equal Remuneration Act were repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Code on Social Security, the OSH Code and the Code on Wages. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 gave way to the 2006 Act on 1 November 2007, and the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 to the 2015 Act on 15 January 2016. Each answer gives the law the paper asked about and the law that applies now.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Dec 2012 examination, in the order it was set.
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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Q.1
Q.1: Attempt the following in not more than two sentences each
20 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)Define 'Women's Estate'.[2]
Answer
Meaning. A woman's estate, or "Hindu woman's estate", was a limited estate. It was the way a Hindu woman held property she inherited under the old Hindu law, chiefly from her husband.
Its features.
- She enjoyed it only for life. She could use the property and take its income.
- She could not freely sell it or leave it by will.
- On her death it went back to the heirs of the last male owner (the reversioners), not to her own heirs.
The 1937 Act. The Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937 let a widow inherit her husband's property. But section 3(3) said her interest "shall be the limited interest known as a Hindu woman's estate". She was given "the same right of claiming partition as a male owner".
Its abolition. Section 14(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 says: "Any property possessed by a female Hindu, whether acquired before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be held by her as full owner thereof and not as a limited owner." So the limited estate ended. Section 14(2) keeps a restricted estate only where a gift, will or decree itself creates one.
Case. In V. Tulasamma v. Sesha Reddy, AIR 1977 SC 1944, a widow was given property for life in settlement of her maintenance. The Supreme Court held that she became its full owner under section 14(1). Her right to maintenance was a pre-existing right, so section 14(2) did not apply.
Conclusion. A woman's estate was a life interest without power of free disposal. Section 14 of the Hindu Succession Act abolished it and made her full owner.
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