History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

APPENDIX. 313

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

The following Notification, published in the Gazette of India, dated 9th September last, pages 981 and 982, is republished for general information :—

No. 1720.

With reference to section 3 of Act XV. of 1865, the following Table of the degrees of consanguinity and affinity within which marriage is prohibited among the Parsis, is published for general information :—

TABLE.

A man shall not marry his

Paternal grandfather’s mother.

. Paternal grandmother’s mother.

. Maternal grandfather’s mother.

. Maternal grandmother’s mother.

Paternal grandmother.

. Paternal grandfather’s wife.

. Maternal grandmother.

. Maternal grandfather’s wife.

Mother or step-mother.

Father’s sister or step-sister.

. Mother’s sister or step-sister.

. Sister or step-sister.

. Brother’s daughter or step-brother’s daughter, or any

direct lineal descendant of a brother or step-brother.

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

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

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

17. Wife of son or of step-son, or of any direct lineal descend-

ant of a son or step-son.

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