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The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936

First ScheduleTable of prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity

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First Schedule

SCHEDULE I (See section 3) Table of prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity A man shall not marry his−

First Schedule, item 1

1. Paternal grand-father's mother.

First Schedule, item 2

2. Paternal grand-mother's mother.

First Schedule, item 3

3. Maternal grand-father's mother.

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4. Maternal grand-mother's mother.

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5. Paternal grand-mother.

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6. Paternal grand-father's wife.

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7. Maternal grand-mother.

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8. Maternal grand-father's wife.

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9. Mother or step-mother.

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10. Father's sister or step-sister.

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11. Mother's sister or step-sister.

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12. Sister or step-sister.

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13. Brother's daughter or step-brother's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or step-brother.

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14. Sister's daughter or step-sister's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or step-sister.

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16. | Son's daughter or step-son's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.

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17. | Wife of son or step-son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.

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18. | Wife of daughter's son or of step-daughter's son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or stepdaughter.

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19. | Mother of daughter's husband.

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20. | Mother of son's wife.

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21. | Mother of wife's paternal grand-father.

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22. | Mother of wife's paternal grand-mother.

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23. | Mother of wife's maternal grand-father.

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24. | Mother of wife's maternal grand-mother.

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25. | Wife's paternal grand-mother.

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26. | Wife's maternal grand-mother.

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27. | Wife's mother or step-mother.

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28. | Wife's father's sister.

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29. | Wife's mother's sister.

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30. | Father's brother's wife.

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31. | Mother's brother's wife.

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32. | Brother's son's wife.

First Schedule, item 33

33. A woman shall not marry her− | Sister's son's wife.

First Schedule, item 1

1. | Paternal grand-father's father.

First Schedule, item 2

2. | Paternal grand-mother's father.

First Schedule, item 3

3. | Maternal grand-father's father.

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4. | Maternal grand-mother's father.

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5. | Paternal grand-father.

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6. | Paternal grand-mother's husband.

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7. | Maternal grand-father.

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8. | Maternal grand-mother's husband.

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9. | Father or step-father.

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10. | Father's brother or step-brother.

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11. | Mother's brother or step-brother.

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12. | Brother or step-brother.

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13. | Brother son or step-brother's son, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or step-brother.

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14. | Sister's son or step-sister's son, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or step-sister.

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15. | Son or step-son or any direct lineal descendant of either.

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16. | Daughter's son or step-daughter's son, or any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or step-daughter.

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17. | Husband of daughter or of step-daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or stepdaughter.

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18. | Husband of son's daughter or of step-son's daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.

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19. | Father of daughter's husband.

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20. | Father of son's wife.

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21. | Father of husband's paternal grand-father.

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22. | Father of husband's paternal grand-mother.

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23. | Father of husband's maternal grand-father.

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24. | Father of husband's maternal grand-mother.

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25. | Husband's paternal grand-father.

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26. | Husband's maternal grand-father.

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27. | Husband's father or step-father.

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28. | Brother of husband's father.

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29. | Brother of husband's mother.

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30. | Husband's brother's son, or his direct lineal descendant.

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31. | Husband's sister's son, or his direct lineal descendant.

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32. | Brother's daughter's husband.

First Schedule, item 33

33. Note. − In the above table the words "brother" and "sister" denote brother and sister of the whole as well as half blood. Relationship by step means relationship by marriages. | Sister's daughter's husband.

First Schedule, item 15

15. Daughter or step-daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of either.

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