law: Married Women's Property Act, 1874
  7. Married women may take legal proceedings
  A married woman may maintain a suit in her own
  
  name for the recovery of property of any description which, by force of the
  
  said Indian Succession Act, 18658, (10 of 1865) or of this Act, is her separate
  
  property; and she shall have, in her own name, the same remedies, both civil
  
  and criminal, against all persons, for the protection and security of such
  
  property, as if she were unmarried, and she shall be liable to such suits,
  
  processes and orders in respect of such property as she would be liable to if
  
  she were unmarried.