The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856, Section 1:
Marriage of Hindu widows legalized. - No marriage contracted between Hindus shall be invalid, and the issue of no such marriage shall be illegitimate, by reason of the woman having been previously married or betrothed to another person who was dead at the time of such marriage, any custom and any interpretation of Hindu law to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, Section 2:
(b) "child marriage" means a marriage to which either of the contracting parties is a child;
(c) "contracting party", in relation to a marriage, means either of the parties whose marriage is or is about to be thereby solemnised;
Section 3: Child marriages to be voidable at the option of contracting party being a child.
Section 4: Provision for maintenance and residence to female contracting party to child marriage.
The Indian Penal Code, Section 494:
Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife.—Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(Exception) —This section does not extend to any person whose marriage with such husband or wife has been declared void by a Court of competent jurisdiction, nor to any person who contracts a marriage during the life of a former husband or wife, if such husband or wife, at the time of the subsequent marriage, shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years, and shall not have been heard of by such person as being alive within that time provided the person contracting such subsequent marriage shall, before such marriage takes place, inform the person with whom such marriage is contracted of the real state of facts so far as the same are within his or her knowledge.
Section 495: Same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom subsequent marriage is contracted.—Whoever commits the offence defined in the last preceding section having concealed from the person with whom the subsequent marriage is contracted, the fact of the former marriage, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
The Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Section 125:
(3) ... If a husband has contracted marriage with another woman or keeps a mistress, it shall be considered to be just ground for his wife' s refusal to live with him.
Strangely, I didn't find any of these words in the above laws: "souls, sacrament, eternal, divine." I guess only an advocate could find those.
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