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•विश्वंौ ॰fं]*शiभ् ** which the Court of this country are bound to observe, there can, I think, be little, if any, room for doubt as to the validity of marringes that might be celebrated under forms and ceremonies differing from those already existing in India I concur in the opinion expressel by the learned | professor Max Muller “that modern legislation can regard marriage only in the light of a Civil contract leaving the religious ceretoonies, if any, to be settled by the contracting parties” nnd that epinion, I am happy to find, han been fully confirmed by the observations that rocently fell from so eminent a lawyer as the Honorable Mr. Stephen. 3. Rhowk! the Harg·li·turw, however, consid»r iť pri*j*r to puss an enactinent like the ene under vinsideration. would respectfully urge than in froming a ('vil Marriage Law for India the agislature should not go further than the actual necessity of the case requires, hor should it yield to the temptstion of introducing oiul changes and reforms by the fiat of the Law. In this view I would object to sections 17 and 18 of the proposed Bill. In giving a Civil form of Marriage to a rection of to ind Community I do not see the nervesity of bringing them or their children under an entirely new i aw of succession and consanguinity. It would, I think, he sufficient to enact that the ". rəf “್ಲಿ? #tid o law of consauguinity and affinity , applicable to all, persons marrying under the Act shall be the law which would have governed the husband if he had not so married, and in the case of the issue of such Marriages the law a - be that which would have applied to the first male ancestor marrying under the Act, such ancestor being traced the małe line. l have the houour tờ be, &ir m:: ch, #$72 Your most oth servant. - w - r arch, Debender nauth 1 agore"

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