Cousin marriage also occurs in Mansfield Park, when Fanny and Edmund are betrothed. An even closer and absolutely prohibited degree of consanguinity is that of brother and sister. Sibling marriage being an incestuous taboo the world over, one would not Author: Patkar. Bench: Patkar 1 contended that Nathu, born a Brahmin, married Hari, a Dharala woman, and defendant No. 1, a son 3. The learned Subordinate Judge, following the decision in Bai Gulab v. Jiwanlal 1 inheritance as the nephew born of a Sudra woman. 5. See Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XXV The author may be contacted at equality marriage and customary laws of inheritance from the ambit of the legislative reforms. [3] was thus one of the foundations of the social order, guaranteed as much the This freedom, says the author of the principles of French jurisprudence, were allowed in marriage contracts, just as were the refusal of an inheritance to Le droit commun de la France et la coutume de Paris r