case of persons to wh_om this Part applies, other than Parsis, is dealt
with in Chapter II, Chapter III contains special rules for Parsi ... purpose.
It may be stated that application of the English law to Parsis, at least in
the Presidency towns, was well-settled.'
2.19. With
inserted at suitable places into
the Christian Marriage Act 1872, the Parsi Marriage
and Divorce Act 1936 and the Dissolution of Muslim
Marriages ... Foreign Marriage Act 1969
(iii) Christian Marriage Act 1872
14
(iv) Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act 1936
(v) Hindu Marriage Act 1955
As regards
Special Marriage Act, 1954 , Indian Christian Marriage
Act, 1872 and Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 .
Then we have few other State laws on Marriage ... kind of
registration of divorce is that of Muslims and Parsis but provisions of the State laws are
dormant and hardly in practice and thus
would deprive them of their laws of succession. The
Muslims and Parsis give utmost importance to their personal laws of succession and they ... faith traditions of
India. The Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis were
all outside its ambit. So, those belonging to any of these
limits; and
(ii) in the case of wills made by any Parsi dying after the
commencement of the Indian Succession (Amendment)
Act, 1962 , where such ... Jaina
was the legacy of the colonial rule, which was extended to Parsis in
1962. The discrimination against the wills executed by the Indian
Christians
View which has generally found favour with the com-
munity. The Parsi Marriage Act, 1936 , the Special
Marriage Act, 1954 , and the Hindu Marriage ... provides that the Act
marriages between Hindus. Section 2(6) of the Parsi
Marriage Act, 1936, deļ¬nes a marriage as one between
Parsis. Conformably
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 17-18
(iv) Islamic Law 18
(v) Parsi and Christian Law 18-19
B. Judicial Interpretations 19-25
(i) Superior Position ... welfare of the child. These
cases are discussed below.
(v) Parsi and Christian Law
2.2.14 Similar to Section 26 of the Hindu Marriage
applies only if the parties to the
marriage are not Muslims, Parsis, or Jews; and the
criticism levelled against it, that it is discriminative ... Hindu by conversion to another religion. Under
section 32(j) of the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936,
it is a ground for divorce that
position
was obscure in relation to other persons - for example,
Anglo-Indians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians, Christians, and
others. In general the English law was applied ... Indian Succession Act, 10 of 1925
iii. The Parsi Intestate Succession Act, 21 of
1865
iv. The Hindu Wills
1ines of the provisions
contained in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 , the Parsi
. Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 , and the Specia1 Marriage ... governed by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 ,
Zoroastrian spouses governed by the Parsi Marriage and"
Divorce Act, 1936, Muslim wives under the Dissolution
