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Principle: Every agreement in restraint of the marriage of any person, other than a minor, is void.…

The co-widows remain free to remarry; the agreement specifies the consequence for their shares in the deceased husband’s property. Rao Rani v. Gulab Rani treated such a…

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Principle: Every agreement in restraint of the marriage of any person, other than a minor, is void.
Facts: Qadir Khan died in a road accident. Two co-widows, Sultana and Marjina enter into an agreement that if any of them will remarry, she would forfeit her right to her share in the deceased husband's property.

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The co-widows remain free to remarry; the agreement specifies the consequence for their shares in the deceased husband’s property. Rao Rani v. Gulab Rani treated such a property arrangement as distinct from a prohibition on remarriage. Its rationale supports the absence-of-restraint answer rather than a general rule that every partial restraint is valid.

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