Assertion: widow | /r/HasAspect | right
Facets:
value: over her deceased spouse's estate
type: LOCATION
value: over their husband's property
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Do widows have a right over their husband's property?
text: Widows have the right
text: Under the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, widows who choose to remarry do have a right on their deceased husband's property.
text: A widow has rights over her deceased spouse's estate.
text: Widows have rights over their deceased spouse's estate.
text: Three theories have been proposed: first that sati was believed to be supported by Hindu scriptures by the 19th century, second that sati was encouraged by unscrupulous neighbors because it was a means of property annexation from a widow who had the right to inherit her dead husband's property under Hindu law and sati helped eliminate the inheritor, and third theory being that poverty was so extreme during the 19th century that sati was a means of escape for a woman with no means or hope of survival.