law: Indian Divorce Act, 1869 
  60. Decree for separation or protection- order valid as to
  
  persons dealing with wife before reversal 
  Every decree for judicial separation or order to protect
  
  property, obtained by a wife under this Act, shall, until reversed or
  
  discharged, be deemed valid, so far as necessary, for the protection of any
  
  person dealing with the wife.
  No reversal, discharge or variation of such decree or order
  
  shall affect any rights or remedies which any person would otherwise have had
  
  in respect of any contracts or acts of the wife entered into or done between
  
  the dates of such decree or order, and of the reversal, discharge or variation
  
  thereof.
   Indemnity of persons making payment to wife without notice
  
  of reversal or decree or protection-order-  All persons who in reliance on any
  
  such decree or order make any payment to, or permit any transfer or act to be
  
  made or done by, the wife who has obtained the same shall, notwithstanding such
  
  decree or order may then have been reversed, discharged or varied, or the
  
  separation of the wife from her husband may have ceased, or at some time since
  
  the making of the decree or order been discontinued, be protected and
  
  indemnified as if, at the time of such payment, transfer or other act, such
  
  decree or order were valid and still subsisting without variation, and the
  
  separation had not ceased or been discontinued,
  unless, at the time of payment, transfer or other act, such
  
  persons had notice of the reversal, discharge or variation of the decree or
  
  order or of the cessation or discontinuance of the separation.