DEFINITION
.All persons related by blood/marriage
A basic social unit constituted by at least 2 people - whose
:-relationship may fall into 1 of 3 categories
a) Husband & wife
b) Parent & children
c) Brother & sister
Definition of marriage
HYDE V HYDE (1866) LR 1 P & D 130
Lord Penzance:
A voluntary union for life of one man & one
.woman to the exclusion of all others
Legal definition
An agreement by which a man & a woman enter
&
into legal relationship with each other
&
which creates & imposes mutual rights
.duties
Rights and
obligations
LRA 1976
Monogamous
marriage
matters
incidental thereto
&Solemnization
registration of marriages
law relating to divorce
NON STATUTORY
W.M
Hindu custom
SABAH
SARAWAK
marriage)
STATUTORY MARRIAGES IN
WEST MALAYSIA
Min. age : male 16 , female 14 ( s. 31 )
C.M. O
1952
Ch . M. O 1956
Avoidance of marriage
by prior subsisting
marriage
REGISTRATION OF
MARRIAGE
ORDINANCE 1952
NON STATUTORY
MARRIAGES
Chinese customary marriage
Nature &
application
Types
?How to prove
Tsai
Six Widows case
Dorothy Yee Yeng Nam v Lee Fah Kooi
Re Loh Toh Met
Re Ding Do Ca
Tsip
Lam Wai Hwa[1983] 2 MLJ 302Yeap Leong Huat[1989] 3 MLJ 157Re Estate of Chong Swee Lin [1997] 4 MLJ
Yew Kin Eng[1997] 5 MLJ 1-
464-