Section 4: Marriage of Devdasi.

The Maharashtra Devdasi System (Abolition) Act, 2005.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 33 of 2006

(1) Notwithstanding any custom, usage, rule or any law to the contrary, no marriage contracted by a woman being a Devdasi shall be invalid and no issue of such marriage shall be illegitimate by reason only of such woman being a Devdasi.

(2) Co-habitation by any man with a Devdasi as husband and wife for a reasonably long period under the same roof shall, prima facie, raise the presumption of legal and valid marriage subsisting between the two of them and any offspring of such co-habitants shall be legitimately entitled to have the hereditary right in the property of such couple, as per the personal law by which such persons are being governed.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Maharashtra Devdasi System (Abolition) Act, 2005.
Section	4
Marginal note	Marriage of Devdasi.
Jurisdiction	State of Maharashtra
Status	In force as published by the source

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