been applied to determine every facet of the law of dower among Mahomedans-whether dower is payable apart from express agreement ; what principles determine ... deemed to be " prompt" or " deferred" ; whether prompt dower is payable on demand or otherwise ; whether non-payment of prompt dower
family.
42. It is either "prompt" or "deferred" and specified or unspecified. Prompt dower is payable either before marriage or immediately ... dower is prompt and according to another branch the presumption is that half is prompt and the other half deferred and the proportion
former in the first instance.
4. As regards the amount of dower, it has been urged generally that the evidence is all oral and relates ... point was not mentioned in the argument, whether the dower was prompt or deferred. It makes no difference in the result
suit was decreed. In appeal the High Court held that dower, whether prompt or deferred, is a debt due by the husband to the wife ... only difference being that if the dower was prompt, it was presently payable, and if it was deferred, it was payable in the case
Mehr (dower)
amounting to Rs.50,00,000/- (Rs. Fifty Lakhs) and it was not mentioned in the
Nikahnama as to when Mehr (dower ... categories of Mehr (dower). One being 'Prompt Dower (Mehr-e-Mu_ajjal)' and
other being 'Deferred Dower (Mehr-e-Mu_vajjal
former in the first instance.
4. As regards the amount of dower, it has been urged generally that the evidence is all oral and relates ... point was not mentioned in the argument, whether the dower was prompt or deferred. It makes no difference in the result
Judge relied on (1) mortgage debts amounting to Rs. 26,000, (2) dower debts to his two wives, amounting ... accepted by the appellants. The District Judge treated the dower debts as prompt, i.e. already due at the date of the wakfnama
which is called prompt, payable before the wife can be called upon to enter the conjugal domicil; the other deferred, payable on the dissolution ... divorce. Naturally the idea of payment of interest on the deferred portion of the dower does not enter into the conception of the parties
Dagdu S/O Chotu Pathan, Latur vs Rahimbi Dagdu Pathan, Ashabi Minor D/O ... on
Hasnumiya Dadamiya vs Halimunnisa Hafizulla on 14 July, 1941
Equivalent citations: AIR1942BOM128, AIR 1942 BOMBAY
