Dower Rights Under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939

Current Civil Cases

2017 (9) SCC 1, he contends that the Apex Court, after considering the concept of divorce under the Muslim Personal Law and the dissolution of marriage under the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 as also the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939, has categorically ... In contradistinction, the Dissoluti....

2024 0 Supreme(All) 1640

of The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 (Act VIII of 1939) which provides that a woman married under the Muslim Law shall be entitled to obtain a decree for the dissolution of her marriage on the ground which is recognised as valid for the dissolution of marriages under Muslim Law. ... The ....

2023 Supreme(Online)(MAD) 5799

When the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 was enacted with effect from 17.03.1939, several grounds for decree for dissolution of marriage were statutorily recognized under Section 2 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939. ... However, Section 5 of the above Act w....

2025 0 Supreme(Guj) 1304

The Apex Court in Shayara Bano's case (supra), has considered the concept of Divorce in Muslim Personal Law and its relationship to the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages under the enactments of 1937 and 1939. ... Learned AGP has taken pains in preparing a flow chart with regard to the dissolution of Muslim marriage, which the Court deems it fit to reproduce hereunder: #HL....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Kar) 27898

No.46/2021 dated 24.03.2023 granting decree of divorce u/sec. 2(ii) (viii) (a) of Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939. ... AND 2 OF CPC R/W SEC.2(ii), V AND VIII(a) OF THE DISSOLUTION OF MUSLIM MARRIAGES ACT, 1939 AND ETC. ... It is relevant to note that Section 2(ix) of the Dissolution of Muslim#HL_EN....

There is a recent Indian Act No. 8 of 1939, the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act, which was passed to consolidate the law of divorce in India, and in it subsequent leprosy is explictly stated to be a ground for divorce (vide section 6), One must distinguish between the grounds for divorce ... Under the general provisions of Muslim law, especially of Shafei law, a w....

2021 0 Supreme(Ker) 452

(1972 KLT 785) negated the right of Muslim women to invoke extra-judicial divorce in light of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939, (in short ‘Act”). ... This dilemma in our country is as old as the Dissolution of Marriage Act, 1939. The question involved in these cases also has to be probed on the anvil of ....

2023 0 Supreme(Cal) 1648

Section 5 of the Act of 1937 as it stood before it is repealed by an Act of 1939 contained the provision relating to the dissolution of marriage by Court in certain circumstances in relation to a muslim married woman in the following: “Dissolution of Marriage ... It is further submitted that though the Personal Muslim Law is recogni....

2023 Supreme(Online)(MAD) 2988

Dissolution of Muslims Marriage Act, 1939” is referred as “the act 1939”]. ... As already observed, the Act of 1939 did not specify as to in which Court, the suit for dissolution of marriage can be filed by the Muslim married women and that there is no other enactment regulating the filing of the su....

2022 0 Supreme(Chh) 311

From the records it is quite vivid that the respondent has claimed divorce by filing the application under Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act 1939, Section 5 of the Act provides protection to the divorced women. Section reads as under;- Rights to dower not to be affected. ... This is first appeal under Section 96 CPC against the judgment and decree dated 10.01.2008 pass....

2024 0 Supreme(Mad) 2232

58. A perusal of the statement of object and reasons of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act leads me to a conclusion that the legislation was brought in only for the purpose of ameliorating the status of the Muslim women. Therefore, while interpreting the same, precedence has to be given to the inherent powers of the Court and to the intent of the Legislation under which the wife has approached the Court seeking divorce. 59. The Act was brought forth to improve and ameliorate the social con....

2020 0 Supreme(Ker) 655

So, the law relating to Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939 is discriminatory to the Muslim men and as such, the provisions of the said Act is also to be made applicable to the Muslim men. 4. Section 2(ix) of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, says that wife is entitled to get divorce on any of the grounds which are recognised as valid for dissolution of marriage under the Muslim Law. Petitioner has further submitted petitions before respondents 1 and 2 to consider these issues....

2017 5 Supreme 577

The law of marriage and divorce amongst Hindus, has had a chequered history. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 provided, grounds for dissolution of marriage to Muslim women, under Section 2 of the above enactment. Details with reference to 1937 and 1939 legislations, have already been narrated, in Part IV – Legislation in India, in the field of Muslim ‘personal law’. “2. Grounds for decree for dissolution of marriage. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages ....

2015 0 Supreme(P&H) 265

49 Affidavit of Taskeen Akhtar including her cross examination Mark ‘B’ Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, for the decree of dissolution of marriage between Taskeen Akhtar and Dilshad Ali Mark ‘A’ 48 Certified copy of suit under Section 2 of the Dissolution of

2002 0 Supreme(Ker) 160

No distinction can be made on the ground that the precise question came up for consideration before the Supreme Court was whether a divorced Muslim women, who obtained a decree for dissolution of the marriage under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939 is entitled to maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. ie. whether she is a "wife" coming within the purview of clause (b) of Section 125 Cr.P.C. So, I find no ground to distinguish the case of the ex-wife on the ground that she claimed rea....