“Where cohabitation of a man and a woman commences with ‘Muta’ and there was no evidence as to the term…

In Shohrat Singh v. Musammat Jafri Bibi (1914), the Privy Council held that where cohabitation began with a muta (temporary) marriage and there was no evidence of the term fixed, the proper inference was that the muta continued for the whole period of cohabitation.

The other cases deal with different points of Muslim marriage law, such as the effect of dower and the presumption of marriage from long cohabitation.