Even if assuming that the learned Judicial Magistrate is vested with jurisdictional competence to determine the validity of a customary di...

It is to be noted that the deed in question is purported to be a document which is claimed to be in conformity with the customs applicable f...

  Definition of Custom:   As per S 3 of Hindu Marriage Act,  the expressions “custom” and “usage” signify any rule which, having been contin...

In the agreement of marriage (Ex. P/1), it is only stated that both parties are of same caste and with the permission and consent of both ...

In response to issue number two, we are concerned here with the custom of adopting married sons in the community of the Appellant. The only...

 At this juncture it would be necessary to observe the law laid down by this Court in numerous cases that t he burden of proving adopti...

 From the evidence available on record from the side of the wife, it is clear that the said is not acceptable evidence with regard to t...

In another case in Udaya Swain. v. Satya Swainani reported in MANU/OR/0197/1970 : 1970 The Cuttack Law Times, 1330, the learned single Jud...

Learned counsel for the appellant seriously argued and contested the award on the ground that the claim petition, in so far it relates ...

  This Court also will simultaneously deal with the issue whether there was any actual and legal dissolution of the marriage of t...

Now when the defendant while appearing as a witness in her deposition, which deposition has remained unshattered during the ordeal of ...

A custom is a long drawn, ancient, uniform, definite continuous and compulsory usage or practice which has been accepted followed and rec...