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The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

§28Appeals from decrees and orders

(1) All decrees made by the court in any proceeding under this Act shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), be appealable as decrees of the court made in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction, and every such appeal shall lie to the court to which appeals ordinarily lie from the decisions of the court given in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction. (2) Orders made by the court in any proceeding under this Act under section 25 or section 26 shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), be appealable if they are not interim orders, and every such appeal shall lie to the court to which appeals ordinarily lie from the decisions of the court given in exercise of its original civil jurisdiction. (3) There shall be no appeal under this section on the subject of costs only. (4) Every appeal under this section shall be preferred within a [period of ninety days] from the date of the decree or order.

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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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