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The nature of marriage for Hindus was radically changed by the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act (1955), the Special Marriage Act, 1954, which brought marriage into the realm of civil law. It was further changed in 1983 by addition of section 498A to the Indian Penal Code , which aimed to protect married women from cruel treatment by husbands ...
The Hindu code bills were several laws passed in the 1950s that aimed to codify and reform Hindu personal law in India, abolishing religious law in favor of a common law code. The Indian National Congress government led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru successfully implemented the reforms in 1950s.
An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also ...
The council passed all-India laws as well as an Indian Law Commission. The progenitor of this codification was a British lawyer by the name of Thomas Macaulay who became the first Law Member, the head of the All-India Legislative Council, and the first head of the Law Commission. [ 16 ]
The Marriage Laws Amendment Bill is a Bill that was first introduced in the Indian Parliament in 2010. It proposes changes to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and Special Marriage Act, 1954 . Both acts has a provision for divorce by mutual consensus of both the parties.
The Special Marriage Act, 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of India with provision for secular civil marriage (or "registered marriage") for people of India and all Indian nationals in foreign countries, irrelevant of the religion or faith followed (both for inter-religious couples and also for atheists and agnostics) by either party. [1]
Shillong (Rifle Range and Umlong) Cantonments Assimilation of Laws Act: 1954: 31 Himachal Pradesh and Bilaspur (New State) Act: 1954: 32 Special Marriage Act: 1954: 43 Essential Commodities Act: 1955: 10 Protection of Civil Rights Act: 1955: 22 State Bank of India Act: 1955: 23 Hindu Marriage Act: 1955: 25 Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act ...
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.