Marriage in Muslim law is a civil contract. It is the institution where by men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal relationship for the purpose of having a family. It originates a legal relation, a partnership in in life, securing harmony, happiness, peace of mind. good fellowship and connubial relations between couple.” Marriage brings about a relation between a man and a woman, based of and arising from, a permanent contract for intercourse and procreation of children. It is recognized as the basis of human society.<\/p>\n
Under Muslim law, every person who is of sound mind and who has attained puberty, has the capacity to enter into a contract of marriage. A minor person cannot marry without the consent and intervention of his or her guardian. A minor cannot possess sufficient understanding before attaining puberty, to comprehend the implications of a contract of marriage. For this reason a marriage contracted by a minor is not valid. A marriage contracted by a minor who has not attained the age of puberty or who does not possess understanding or who cannot comprehend the consequences of the contract is a mere nullity.” Nevertheless marriage of minors in Bangladesh is very much a common fact. In this context the present study will attempt to give a penpicture of the position of minors in marriage and examine the provisions of Muslim law and Statutory laws in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article-category":[37],"class_list":["post-183","journal","type-journal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article-category-law-journal-1998"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/journal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/lawjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}