law: Indian Divorce Act, 1869 
  24. Separated wife deemed spinster with respect to after-
  
  acquired property 
  In every case of a judicial separation under this Act, the wife
  
  shall, from the date of the sentence, and whilst the separation continues, be
  
  considered as unmarried with respect to property of every description which she
  
  may acquire, or which may come to or devolve upon her.
  Such property may be disposed of by her in all respects as an
  
  unmarried woman, and on her decease the same shall, in a case she dies
  
  intestate, go as the same would have gone if her husband had been then dead:
  PROVIDED  that, if any such wife again cohabits with her
  
  husband, all such property as she may be entitled to when such cohabitation
  
  takes place shall be held to her separate use, subject, however, to any
  
  agreement in writing made between herself and her husband whilst separate.