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The law under these papers has moved. The Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Evidence Act were replaced by the BNS, BNSS and BSA on 1 July 2024; adultery (section 497) was struck down on 27 September 2018 and is not in the BNS. The Maternity Benefit Act, the Factories Act and the Equal Remuneration Act were repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Code on Social Security, the OSH Code and the Code on Wages. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 gave way to the 2006 Act on 1 November 2007, and the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 to the 2015 Act on 15 January 2016. Each answer gives the law the paper asked about and the law that applies now.
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Q.1
Q.1: Answer the following in not more than two sentences each
20 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)State the types of Meher under Islamic law.[2]
Answer
Meher (mahr or dower) is "a sum of money or other property which the wife is entitled to receive from the husband in consideration of the marriage" (Mulla, Principles of Mahomedan Law, section 217). It is classified in two ways.
1. By how the amount is fixed.
- Specified dower (mahr-i-musamma). The amount is fixed by agreement, before, at or after the marriage (sections 218 and 219). The husband may fix any amount, even beyond his means, but under Sunni law not less than ten dirhams. The court awards the whole sum agreed.
- Proper or customary dower (mahr-i-misl). If no amount is fixed, the wife is still entitled to "proper dower". This applies "even if the marriage was contracted on the express condition that she should not claim any dower". It is measured by the dower of other women of her father's family, such as her father's sisters (section 220).
2. By when it is payable.
- Prompt dower (mu'ajjal). Payable on demand (section 221(1)). The wife may refuse to live with her husband until it is paid.
- Deferred dower (muwajjal). Payable "on dissolution of marriage by death or divorce" (section 221(1)).
- If the contract is silent. Shia law treats the whole as prompt. Under Sunni law part is prompt and part deferred, according to custom (section 221(2)). The Madras High Court presumes it prompt (Sheik Muhammad Rowther v. Ayeesha Beevi, (1937) 2 MLJ 779).
Conclusion. Meher is either specified or proper by its amount, and prompt or deferred by its time of payment. In every case it is the wife's own right.
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