Law: Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929

Section: 2

Law: Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)

Section: 100

(a) Custom (Punjab)  Alienation of ancestral propertyLegal necessityPayment of just antecedent debt and expenditure on marriage of son or daughter, held, legal necessities.[AlienationLegal necessity]. Rattigan's Digest of Customary Law, para. 63(h) (c) and Ibrahim and others v. Shah Mahomed 92 I C 263 rel. Abdul Aziz and another v. Ghulam Muhammad and others P L D 1951 Lah. 187 ; Ghulam Muhammad v. Ghulam Muhammad P 1. D 1949 Lah. 384; Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, S. 5; Gujjar Singh and another v. Kahan Singh and others A I R 1927 Lah. 118 ; Indar Singh v. Nasiba and another A I R 1936 Lah. 769 ; Sardar Surrendar Singh and another v. Chaudhri Ghulam Muhammad A I R 1931) P C 150 and Niaz Ali v. Yasin and others P L D 1966 Pesh. 137 ref. (b) Custom (Punjab)              Read with Child Marriage Restraint Act (XIX of 1929), S. 2 Alienation of ancestral propertyLegal necessityArrangement of money for marriage of sonAge of son less than marriageable age prescribed by Child Marriage Restraint Act (XIX of 1929) Marriage of even such son, held, would not take out alienation from ambit of legal necessity.[AlienationLegal necessity]. (c) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)  S. 100Legal necessityIssue ofHeld, a mixed question of law and factConcurrent findings on such question, held further, would not be sacrosanct and High Court can interfere in second appeal.[Mixed question of law and factLegal necessity]. Dates of hearing : 15th and 16th October, 1979                                                                                                                                       JUDGMENT One Sultan; father of plaintiffs Nos. 1 to 4 and husband of plaintiff No. 5 alienated his land in favour of Muhammad Din appellant for a sum of Rs. 2,000 vide registered sale…