https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=191578 A remarriage contracted before expiry of the one-year period in the proviso to Section 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act is not void. The Act expressly treats only specified marriages as void under Section 11 and separately penalises certain breaches under Section 18, but it does not declare a remarriage in breach of the proviso void or prescribe a penalty for it. The proviso was read as a regulatory restraint delaying remarriage, not as creating a continuing marital incapacity or making the subsequent marriage a nullity. The remarriage therefore remains valid, and the spouse cannot be denied the status of wife or widow on that ground. en-us Thu, 04 May 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:11:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=191578 A remarriage contracted before expiry of the one-year period in the proviso to Section 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act is not void. The Act expressly treats only specified marriages as void under Section 11 and separately penalises certain breaches under Section 18, but it does not declare a remarriage in breach of the proviso void or prescribe a penalty for it. The proviso was read as a regulatory restraint delaying remarriage, not as creating a continuing marital incapacity or making the subsequent marriage a nullity. The remarriage therefore remains valid, and the spouse cannot be denied the status of wife or widow on that ground. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 04 May 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=191578