Muttiah Chetty V. Dingiria Et Al,

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Present : The Hon. Sir Joseph T. Hutchinson, Chief Justice
Mr. Justice Middleton, and Mr. Justice Wood Renton
 
MUTTIAH CHETTY v. DINGIRIA et al.

C. R., Kandy, 3,525.

Kandyan Law - Minor female - Marriage - Majority- Ordinances Nos. 5 of 1852, s. 5, and 7 of 1865, s. 2-Civil Procedure Code, s. 502.

    A Kandyan woman under the age of twenty-one years does not become a major by marriage.

    APPEAL by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Commissioner (J. H. Templer, Esq.) dismissing his action against the first defendant.

    The facts sufficiently appear in the judgments.

    H. A. Jayewardene (with him Van Langenberg), for the plaintiff, appellant.

    Bawa, for the first defendant, respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

 September 25, 1907. HUTCHINSON C.J.-

    The question is whether a Kandyan woman who marries under the age of twenty-one becomes by her marriage capable of entering into and binding herself by a contract, although she is still under twenty-one.

    The plaintiff sued the defendants, who are husband and wife, on 3, note made by them. The Commissioner dismissed the action as against the woman on the groun

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