law: Hindu Succession Act, 1956
  14. Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property
  
  
  (1) 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.
  Explanation: In this sub-section, "property"
  
  includes both movable and immovable property acquired by a female Hindu by
  
  inheritance or devise, or at a partition, or in lieu of maintenance or arrears
  
  of maintenance, or by gift from any person, whether a relative or not, before,
  
  at or after her marriage, or by her own skill or exertion, or by purchase or by
  
  prescription, or in any other manner whatsoever, and also any such property
  
  held by her as stridhana immediately before the commencement of this Act.
  (2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to any
  
  property acquired by way of gift or under a will or any other instrument or
  
  under a decree or order of a civil court or under an award where the terms of
  
  the gift, will or other instrument or the decree, order or award prescribe a
  
  restricted estate in such property.
  Comment: The case of the widow who had temporarily lost
  
  the right in the property by virtue of the transfer in favor of the alienee or
  
  the donee cannot be equated with that of a stranger by forgetting the realities
  
  of the situation. Surely, the act was intended to benefit her. And when the
  
  widow becomes possessed of the property, having regained precisely that
  
  interest which she had temporarily lost during the duration of the eclipse,
  
  Section 14(l) would come to her rescue which would not be the matter in the
  
  case of a stranger who cannot invoke Section 14(1). Jagannathan Pillai v.
  
  Kunjithapadam Pillai, AIR 1987 SUPREME COURT 1493