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Section 2
The Majority Act, 1875

Section 2. Saving

Nothing herein contained shall affect:

(a) the capacity of any persons to act in the following matters (namely), marriage, dower, divorce and adoption;

(b) the religion or religious rites and usages of any class of 1 [citizens of India]; or

(c) the capacity of any person who before this Act comes into force has attained majority under the law applicable to him.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.

How courts have applied section 2