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Marriage

Matched in: Term Marriage

Marriage Officer

Matched in: Term Marriage Officer

District Court

notification in the Official Gazette as having jurisdiction in respect of the matters dealt with in this Act. [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2 (e)] It means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that

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Degrees of prohibited relationship

of the persons mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule are within the degrees of prohibited relationship. [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(b)] Degrees of prohibited relationship, [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. … the degrees of prohibited relationship. [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(b)] Degrees of prohibited relationship, [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(b)]

Bestiality

that her husband has, since the solemnization of the marriage, been guilty of rape, sodomy or bestiality defined. [Special Marriage Act, s. 27(1A)] Bestiality, the crime of men with beasts, punishable under the (English) Offences against the Person Act,

Estate

Common Law, afterwards called fees-tail in consequence of the Statute De Donis, which may be (i.) general or special, (ii.) male or female, (iii.) given in frank-marriage. (B) Freeholds not of inheritance, sub-divided into-- (a) Conventional, or … when a new system of conveyancing was introduced by the Real Property legislation of that year. (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1(1), declares that the only estates in land (see definition, s. 205 (ix.), ibid.) which are

Half blood

descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)] The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors.

Uterine blood

to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands. [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(c) Expl. II; See also Hindu Succession Act, 1956, s. 3(1)(e)]

Either party

order for maintenance, Aruno Basu Mullick v. Dorothea Mitra, (1983) 3 SCC 522: AIR 1983 SC 916 (920). [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 37(2)]

Illegitimate blood

Exp. I(b), Relationship in the terminology degrees of prohibited relationship includes illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate. [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b) Expl. (b)]

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