The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
In any proceeding under this Act, the court may make such provisions in the decree as it deems just and proper with respect to any property presented, at or about the time of marriage, which may belong jointly to both the husband and the wife.
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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