The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Any marriage solemnised after the commencement of this Act shall be null and void and may, on a petition presented by either party thereto [against the other party], be so declared by a decree of nullity if it contravenes any one of the conditions specified in clauses (i), (iv) and (v) of section 5.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1560/1/A1955-25Eng.pdf, 355,565 bytes, sha256 e0989d90e686ef3e...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-01. The same handle carries a Hindi edition (H1955-25Hi.pdf); the English 'Eng' file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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