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Home Bare Acts Phrase: hindu Page 1 of about 1,364 results (0.006 seconds)Bombay Hindu Divorce (Decrees Validation) Act, 1958, (Maharashtra) Preamble
Title: the Bombay Hindu Divorce (Decrees Validation) Act, 1958
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1958
.....for a continuous period of 4 years before the commencement of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, filed suits for divorce under one or other of those Acts, read with sections 29 and 30 of the Central Hindu Marriage Act; and it appears that divorces in certain cases were actually granted. Subsequently in Sitabai Ramchandra v. Ramchandra Raghunath Todankar, Appeal No. 94/1956, a Full Bench of the Bombay High Court decided that any right which may have accrued to obtain a divorce for desertion under the Bombay Hindu Divorce Act, 1947, could not be prosecuted after the repeal of the Act by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, as such desertion must be continuous until the filing of the suit. After the commencement of the Central Act a suit for divorce could be filed only under that Act. Consequently, divorces granted were illegal. The High Court suggested that as a considerable number of such divorces may have been granted by the Courts erroneously, the State Government should take action to validate them by legislation. This Act gives effect to this suggestion of the High Court. As the Saurashtra Hindu Divorce Act, 1952, follows subsequently the Bombay Act, divorces granted in similar.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionHindu Marriage Act, 1955 Chapter 2
Title: Hindu Marriages
State: Central
Year: 1955
.....section 2, for clause (ii). (w.e.f. 27-5-1976) 2. The words "epilepsy" omitted by Act 39 of 1999. sec. 2 (w.e.f. 29-12-1999) 3. Substituted by Act 2 of 1978, section 6 and Schedule, for "eighteen years" (w.e.f. 1.10.1978.) 4. Substituted by Act 2 of 1978, section 6 and Schedule, for "fifteen years" (w.e.f. 1.10.1978.) 5. Clause (vi) omitted by Act 2 of 1978, section 6 and Schedule, (w.e.f. 1.10.1978.) Section 6 - Guardianship in marriage [Rep. by the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act, 1978, (2 of 1978), section 6 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1.10.1978)]. Section 7 - Ceremonies for a Hindu marriage (1) A Hindu marriage may be solemnized in accordance with the customary rites and ceremonies of either party thereto. (2) Where such rites and ceremonies include the Saptapadi (that is, the taking of seven steps by the bridegroom and the bride jointly before the sacred fire), the marriage becomes complete and binding when the seventh step is taken. Section 8 - Registration of Hindu marriages (1) For the purpose of facilitating the proof of Hindu marriages, the State Government may make rules providing that the parties to any such marriage may have the particulars.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866, (Maharashtra) Preamble 1
Title: THE BOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1866
THE BOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866 [Act No. 7 of1866]1 [31st May, 1866] Repealed in part, by Act12 of1873; Bom.3 of1886. PREAMBLE An Act to limit the liability of a son, grandson or heir of, a deceased Hindu for the debts of his ancestor, And the liability of the second husband of a Hindu widow for the debts of her deceased husband, and otherwise to amend the law of debtor and or editor. Where as according to the law in force, as applied to Hindus by the High. Court of Judicatures at Bombay in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, no son or grandson of a deceased Hindu in liable for the debts of his ancestor merely by reason of his being such son or grandson, and no son, grandson or other heir of deceased Hindu, who has received assets of the deceased, is merely from that circumstance liable for the debts of bin ancestor beyond the amount of the assets received, and no person marrying a Hindu widow is liable in consequence of such marriage for the debts of her former or any prior deceased husband; and whereas a different law is applied to Hindus by the Civil Courts which exercise jurisdiction in places beyond the local limits of the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionHindu Marriage Act, 1955 Section 8
Title: Registration of Hindu Marriages
State: Central
Year: 1955
.....or expedient so to do, provide that the entering of the particulars referred to in sub-section (1) shall be compulsory in the State or in any part thereof, whether in all cases or in such cases as may be specified, and where any such direction has been issued, any person contravening any rule made in this behalf shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees. (3) All rules made under this section shall be laid before the State Legislature, as soon as may be, after they are made. (4) The Hindu Marriage Register shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection, and shall be admissible as evidence of the statements therein contained and certified extracts therefrom shall, on application, be given by the Registrar on payment to him of the prescribed fee. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the validity of any Hindu marriage shall in no way be affected by the omission to make the entry.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionHindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997 Preamble 1
Title: Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997
State: Karnataka
Year: 1997
THE HINDU RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS ACT, 1997 [Act, No. 33 of 2001]1 [25th October, 2001] PREAMBLE An Act to make better provision for the management and administration of The Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments in the State of Karnataka. Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for the management and administration of Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments in the State of Karnataka. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the forty-eighth year of the Republic of India, as follows:- ________________________ 1. (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the second day of November 2001)
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBanaras Hindu University Act, 1915 Section 20
Title: Dissolution and Transfer of Property of the Hindu University Society
State: Central
Year: 1915
(1) From the commencement of this Act, the Hindu University Society shall be dissolved, and all property, movable and immovable, and all rights, powers, and privileges of the Hindu University Society which, immediately before the commencement of this Act, belonged to, or were vested in, the said Society, shall vest in the University, and shall be applied to the objects and purposes for which the University is incorporated. (2) From the commencement of this Act, all debts and liabilities of the said Society shall be transferred and attached to the University, and shall thereafter be discharged and satisfied by the University. (3) Any will, deed or other document, whether made or executed before or after the commencement of this Act, which contains any bequest, gift or trust in favour of the Central Hindu College or the said Society shall, on the commencement of this Act, be construed as if the University were therein named, instead of the said College or Society
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Hindu Places of Public Worship (Entry Authorization) Act, 1956, (Maharashtra) Section 3
Title: Throwing Open of Hindu Temples to All Classes and Section of Hindus
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1956
Notwithstanding any custom, usage or law for the time being in force, or the decree or order of a court, or anything contained in any instrument, to the contrary, every place of public worship which is open to Hindus generally, or to any section or class thereof, shall be open to all sections and classes of Hindus; and no Hindu of whatsoever section or class, shall in any manner be prevented, obstructed or discouraged from entering such place of public worship, or from worshipping or offering prayers thereat, or performing any religious service therein, in the like manner and to like extent as any other Hindu of whatsoever section or class may so enter, worship, pray or perform.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866, (Maharashtra) Section 5
Title: Liability of member of undivided Hindu family for family debts contraoted during his minority
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1866
Whereas debt is contracted after this Act shall come into operation by one or more numbers of an undivided Hindu family, under such circumstances as that the same forms the debt of the undivided family, no member of such undivided family, who is unborn or under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the contracting of such debt, shall be liable personally to pay the same, but such member shall only be laible to pay the same out of and to the asset of the property of the undivided Hindu family and of the separate property, if any, belonging, to any deceased members of the undivided family who were above the age of twenty-one years at the time of the contracting the same, received or taken possession of by such member or any other person by his order or to his use and remaining unapplied, unless any part of such property so received or taken possession of as aforesaid shall not have been duly applied by such member, in which case he shall be father liable personally for such debt to the extent of the property not duly applied by him.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866, (Maharashtra) Section 1
Title: Hindu son or grandson not liable as Such for debt of ancestor
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1866
No son or grandson of a deceased Hindu shall, merely by reason of his being such son or grandson, be liable to be sued for any of the debts of such deceased Hindu.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionHindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 Section 8
Title: Capacity of a Female Hindu to Take in Adoption
State: Central
Year: 1956
Any female Hindu- (a) who is of sound mind, (b) who is not a minor, and (c) who is not married, or if married, whose marriage has been dissolved or whose husband is dead or has completely and finally renounced the world or has ceased to be a Hindu or has been declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be of unsound mind, has the capacity to take a son or daughter in adoption.
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