CUSTOM :

Custom can override any text of smriti law.

Collector of Madura Vs. Mooto Ramalinga (1868) 12 MIA 397, P436.

Called as (Ramnad Case)

Sec 1 of HMA 1955

Central bank of india Ltd., Vs. Ram Narain, AIR 1955 SC 36.

Sec 5 Of HMA 1955

Monogamy:

Sarla mudgal Vs. UOI 1995 3 SCC 635

Lily Thomas Vs. UOI 2000 6 SCC 224

Mental Capacity: Soundness of mind:

Bennet Vs. Bennet

The Doctrine of Factum Valet:

S. Nagalingam Vs. Sivagami (2001) 7 SCC 487

Registration of Hindu Marriage (Sec 8)

Seema Vs. Ashwani Kumar AIR 2006 SC 1158

SEC 9 of HMA 1955- Restitution of Conjugal Rights:

Sareetha Vs. T. Venkatasubbaiah AIR 1983 AP 356

Harvindar kaur Vs. Harmander Singh AIR 1984 Del 66

Saroj Rani Vs. Sudarshan kumar Chadha

SEC 10 of HMA 1955- Judicial separation

Chandra Vs. Suresh (AIR 1971 Del 208)

Theories of Divorce

a) Guilt or fault Theory

b) Consent Theory
c) Irretrievable breakdown Theory
Irretrievable breakdown Theory

In Gollins Vs. Gollins (1963)

William Vs.William

Section 13 –Divorce

Adultery:

V. Bhagat V. D. Bhagat

S. V. Venkataraman v. S. V. Brinda (2015)

joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018) SCC online sc 1676

Swapna Ghosh Vs. Sadananda Ghosh AIR 1989 CAL

Cruelty:

Russell Vs. Russell (1897) AC 303

Dastane Vs. Dastane, AIR 1975 SC 1534

Gollins Vs. Gollins (1963) 2 ALLER 966

Desertion:

Bipin Chandra Vs. Prabaurati, AIR 1957 SC 173

Lang Vs. Lang (1954)3 ALL ER 571

Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage: Sec 13(1A)(i)

Naveen Kohli Vs. Neelu Kohli, AIR 2006 SC 1675

Section 13(2) Rape, sodomy, Bestality

IPC Sec. 377 decriminalized

Navtej singh johar Vs. UOI, AIR 2018 SC 4321

Maintenance:

Mohammed Ahmed khan Vs. Shah Bano Begum AIR 1985 SC 945

Triple Talaq:

Shyara Bano Vs. UOI AIR 2017 SC 4609