NAME : R.

RAMYA
INSTITUTION: SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN LAW

TOPIC: MARRIAGE LAWS UNDER

DIFFERENT RELIGION
CODE: LI35
 MARRIAGE

• Marriage is an institution that binds two people together for eternity. India is a
secular country where people have a constitutional right to follow any religion as
per their desire. There are different religious personal laws that lay down marriage
laws in India
•  A legal dictionary defines marriage as “the state of being united to a person of the
opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship
recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law.” Legally, marriage is a
binding contract between the two parties that joins together their possessions,
income, and lives.
 MARRIAGE – A CIVIL RIGHT

Recognized federal civil rights law in the United States is grounded in the U.S. Constitution as
interpreted by the Supreme Court. By this standard, marriage has long been established as a
civil right. The operative constitutional text is section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which
was ratified in 1868. The relevant passages read as follows: No State shall not make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.