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What is the traditional Muslim-law term for a person’s qualified option to repudiate a marriage…

Khyar-ul-Bulugh means the option of puberty. In India, section 2(vii) of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 gives a woman married by her father or another…

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What is the traditional Muslim-law term for a person’s qualified option to repudiate a marriage arranged by a guardian during minority upon attaining puberty?

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Khyar-ul-Bulugh means the option of puberty. In India, section 2(vii) of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 gives a woman married by her father or another guardian before age 15 a ground to seek dissolution if she repudiated the marriage before age 18 and it had not been consummated. Those statutory conditions govern that ground.

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Option A

Talaq-e-Tafweez is delegated talaq.

Option B

Talaq-ul-Biddat is instant and irrevocable talaq. Its pronouncement is void and illegal under the 2019 Act.

Option C

Khyar-ul-Bulugh is the traditional name for the qualified option of puberty.

Option D

Talaq-ul-Sunnat refers to the approved forms of talaq.

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