56 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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PART II.—MARRIAGE AND ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER I
Marriage
5. Interpretation. —In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “district court” includes any court subordinate to the district court which may be specified in this behalf by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette;
(b) “Sapinda relationship”—a man is a sapinda of any of the persons mentioned in the first column of the First Division of the Third Schedule and a woman is a sapinda of any of the persons mentioned in the second column of the said Division;
(c) “degrees of prohibited relationship”—a man and any of the persons mentioned in the first column of the Second Division of the Third Schedule and a woman and any of the persons mentioned in the second column of the said Division are within the degrees of prohibited relationship.
Explanation.— For the purposes of clauses (b) and (c) relationship includes,—
(i) relationship by half or uterine blood as well as by full blood;
(ii) illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate;
(iii) relationship by adoption as well as by blood;
and all terms of relationship in those clauses shall be construed accordingly*.
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