Dissoluble - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dissolubleDissolubility
The quality of being dissoluble capacity of being dissoluble capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture and converted into a fluid...
Dissolubleness
The quality of being dissoluble dissolubility...
Dissoluble
Capable of being dissolved having its parts separable by heat or moisture convertible into a fluid...
Mahr (dower)
Mahr (dower), Mahr (dower) is neither dowry nor price for marriage: As explained in an old judgment by Justice Syed Mahmood, maher is 'not the exchange or consideration given by the man to the woman, but an effect of the contract imposed by law on the husband as a token of respect for its subject: the Woman'. Giving a correct appraisal of the concept of maher, the Privy Council once described it as 'an essential incident to the status of marriage'. On another occasion it explained that maher was a 'legal responsibility' of the husband. These judicial observations evidence a correct understanding of the Islamic legal concept of maher. Its substitute, a valid retirement, or by death, which by terminating the marriage, puts an end to all the contingencies to which it is exposed; and on the other hand the woman becomes entitled to it as soon as she has surrendered her person. Justice Mahmood has described the nature of mahr in Abdul Kadir Salima. According to him: Dower (mahr), under the M...
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