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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday January 27 1919

1919

tion upholding the validity of intercaste marriages cannot adversely affect the interests of the orthodox community in any way but would on the contrary lead to the growth and conservation of the Hindu Community at large we are in a position to prove conclusively. [...] The material portion of this Act runs as follows :- “So much of every law or usage now in force witin the territories subject to the Government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of inheritance by reason of his or her renouncing or having been excluded from the communion of any religion [...] The effect of the Civil Marriage Act of 1.872 is only that the issues of such a marriage succeed to the parents according to the provsions of the Succession Act inter se but by virtue of lineal descent or as collaterals they can also claim inheritance under the Dayabhaga or Mitakshara law as the ease may be the Act of 1850 having removed all bar to rights or property consequent on their pare [...] Those who are for putting them outside the pale of their society can only claim'non-interference by the State with their right to deny them social or religious commnion but surely they have no locus standi to oppose the obvious and undoubted right of the latter to demand the protection of the law and legislature for safeguarding the status of husband and wife and the legitimacy of children. [...] The Plaintiffs brought the suit to eject the Defendant on the ground that he was in wrongful possession without as the Plaintiffs allege obtaining any settlement from the Plaintiffs or from the predecessor of the Plaintiff No.
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4
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India
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sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday January 27 1919
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