7 Jiyuni

Jiyuni (the widow's living-right): the pre-reform institution — the widow's-and-elderly dependants' right to sustenance from the joint property rather than ownership: the jiuni allotment's design (a life-interest-and-maintenance allocation, not a share; the manager's duty to maintain; the jiyuni-holder's protection against eviction-and-neglect — the Ain's and the courts' protections). The modern supersession: the widow's full heirship (the equal inheritance of Sections 11–12) converting jiyuni into ownership — but the term's-and-institution's survival in the villages' practice (the widow's informally-granted sustenance instead of her inheritance share — the law-practice gap's classic instance; the courts' protection of the widow's claim to convert sustenance into succession).