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HINDU WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE ACT, 1856 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1856

HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 An Act to remove all legal obstacles to the Marriage of Hindu Widows Whereas it is known that, by the law as administered in the Civil Courts established in the territories in the possession and under the Government of the East India Company, Hindu widows with certain exceptions are held to be, by reason of their having been once married, incapable of contracting a second valid marriage and the offspring of such widows by any second marriage are held to be illegitimate and incapable of inheriting property; and whereas many Hindus believe that this imputed legal incapacity, although it is in accordance with established custom, is not in accordance with a true interpretation of the precepts of their religion, and desire that the civil law administered by the Courts of Justice shall no longer prevent those Hindus who maybe so minded from adopting a different custom, in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience; and whereas it is just to relieve all such Hindus from this legal incapacity of which they complain, and the removal of all legal obstacles to the marriage of Hindu widows will tend.....

Civil Courts Amins Act, 1856 [Repealed] Preamble 1

Title: The Civil Courts Amins Act, 1856

State: Central

Year: 1856

1 [THE CIVIL COURTS AMINS ACT, 1856] [Act, No. 12 of 1856] [9th May, 1856] PREAMBLE An Act to amend the Law respecting the employment of Amins by the Civil Courts in the Presidency of Fort William. WHEREAS the law by which the Civil Courts are authorized to employ Amins upon local investigations is defective, and requires amendment; {Certain words were rep. by Act 12 of 1891.} It is enacted as follows:- ________________________ {Short title given by the Amending Act, 1897 (5 of 1897). This Act was declared, by the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874 (15 of 1874) s.7, to be in force in the former North-Western Provinces except the Scheduled Districts. It has been declared, by notification under the Scheduled Districts Act 1874 (14 of 1874), to be in force in the Scheduled portion of the Mirzapur District and in Jaunsar Bawar-See Gazette of India, 1879, Pt.I, pp.382-383.}

Civil Courts Amins Act, 1856 [Repealed] Section 5

Title: Duties of Amins

State: Central

Year: 1856

{The words "Subject to such general directions and restrictions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Sudder Court" were rep.by Act 12 of 1873.} The Civil Court Amins may be employed in any of the following duties: (i) in investigating or adjusting accounts in any suit or other judicial proceeding: (ii) in making local investigations when the Court may deem investigation on the spot to be requisite and proper for the purpose of elucidating the matters in dispute, or of ascertaining the amount of mesne profits or damages, in any suit or other judicial proceeding: (iii) in delivering over possession of lands, houses and other immovable property, in execution of decrees or orders of Court: (iv) in the sale of movable property, and of houses, gardens and other immovable property of the kind described {That is "orchards, or small portions of lakhiraj land".Ben.Reg.7 of 1825 was repealed by the Repealing Act, 1874 (16 of 1874), but not so as to affect the provisions referred to here, see s.1, para.2, of that Act} in section 3, Regulation 7, 1825: (v) in ascertaining the sufficiency of sureties and the means of persons suing in forma pauperis.

Civil Courts Amins Act, 1856 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Judicial Administration Laws (Repeal) Act 2001

State: Central

Year: 1856

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