The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
(1) A Hindu marriage may be solemnized in accordance with the customary rites and ceremonies of either party thereto. (2) Where such rites and ceremonies include the Saptapadi (that is, the taking of seven steps by the bridegroom and the bride jointly before the sacred fire), the marriage becomes complete and binding when the seventh step is taken.
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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