Examples of Personal Law in a sentence
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Although Dalit communities are governed by the Hindu Personal Law and other secular laws of India, the subsects within Dalit communities have their own community constitution/customary laws.
Section 2 of this Act defines dowry as ‘any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given directly or indirectly by one party to a marriage to the other party to the marriage or by the parents of either party to a marriage or by any other person, to either party to the marriage or to any other person at or before the marriage as consideration for the marriage of the said parties, but does not include dowry or mahar in the case of persons to whom the muslim Personal Law (Shariat) applies’.
The Indian Succession Act 1925 applies expressly to wills and codicils made by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians but not to Mohammedans as they are largely covered by Muslim Personal Law.
Despite being governed by the Hindu Personal Law and the Secular Laws, Dalit women continue to refer to their own subcastes customary practices in settling matrimonial disputes, in most cases when there is continuous and intolerable domestic violence.
The Sharia Court of Appeal of the FCT, Abuja exercises appellate and supervisory jurisdiction in civil proceedings involving questions of Islamic Personal Law (section 262).At the State level, the highest court is the High Court which is headed by the Chief Judge of the State and such number of Judges of the High Court as may be prescribed by a law of the State House of Assembly (section 270 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution [as amended]).
Shah Bano Begum & Ors.44, this Court held that the provisions of Muslim Personal Law do not countenance cases in which the wife is unable to maintain herself after the divorce.
It does not include dower or Mahr in the case of persons to whom the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) applies.
Personal Law of a Citizen 1.The personal law of a citizen shall be considered to be the law of the state whose citizenship this person has.
Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Religious Freedom under the Personal Law System, Farrah Ahmed, Oxford University Press, 2016, 10(2) NUJS L.