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Acquiesce, means to accept tacitly or passively, to give implied consent to an act, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 23.

The word 'acquired' has also to be given the widest possible meaning. This would be so because of the language of the Explanation which makes sub-s. (1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase or prescription or in any manner whatsoever. Where at the commencement of the Act a female Hindu has a share in joint properties which are later on partitioned by metes and bounds and she gets possession of the properties allotted to her there can be no manner of doubt that she is not only possessed of that property at the time of the coming into force of the Act but has also acquired the same before its commencement [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 s. 14(1)], Badri Pershad v. Kanso Devi, AIR 1970 SC 1963 (1966): (1970) 2 SCR 95.