agrees to let her daughter to hire to B for concubinage. The agreement is void, because it is immoral, though the letting
further urged that in the community to which Sabu belonged concubinage is not regarded with disfavour, and that a dasiputra is recognised among Shudras ... that the fact that in a certain section of the community concubinage is allowed and is not regarded as immoral does not make a settlement
kept concubine of late Ranganatha and even the alleged concubinage is invalid, and in the context of the. earlier proceedings, the plea of adverse possession ... taken place. This presumption is rebuttable, by proving that it was only concubinage.
11-A, In a case wherein evidence in the form
four pieces. of evidence would seem to prove the fact of this concubinage of the appellant with the said Pavadai Chettiar. The first piece ... rely upon the evidence of these witnesses in order to prove concubinage, which has to be established positively and affirmatively by the person who seeks
well settled that the law presumes
in favour of marriage and against concubinage
when a man and woman have cohabited
continuously for a number ... consequence of a valid marriage, and not in a
state of concubinage.
12. In India, the same principles have been
followed in Andrahennedige Dinohamy
Lingayya.
The claim of an Avaruddha Stree or woman kept in
concubinage for maintenance for her lifetime against the
estate of her paramour rested ... Mayuka, Lord Darling said:--
"providing the concubinage be permanent,
until the death of the paramour, and sexual
fidelity to him be preserved, the right
were living together by virtue of a -legal marriage and not in concubinage"
11. The presumption of law is a strong legal presumption ... consequence Of it, valid marriage and not in a state of concubinage Vide Mayne on Hindu Law and Usage, 11th 'Edition (reprint), pages
this Vijnaneshwara says in pl. 28:
This relates to women kept in concubinage: for the term employed is 'female' (yoshit). The text ... Inheritance, 335.
3. The word used for "women kept in concubinage" and "concubines" in the original is avaruddha stree. Similarly
illegitimate children of Sudras were allowed to inherit because among them continuous concubinage was equivalent to marriage and in the judgment in the present case ... married woman that a child born during the period of concubinage is the paramour's. The status of the woman and the fact that
this appeal are: Firstly, whether on the facts alleged a case of concubinage or prostitution or living in adultery has been made out; and secondly ... edition (The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Co., Rochester, New York) concubinage is defined as the state of a woman who sustains a relation involving