What is the Territorial or Personal Laws?
Law may be Territorial or personal laws. A territorial law is that branch of law which applied in a particular territory and is applicable upon persons of all communities living I that territory. For examples Indian Penal Code or The Indian Contact Act are territorial law. Because Indian Penal Code or The Indian Contact Act applied upon all persona are living in India.
On the other hand, a personal law is the branch of civil law, which applied upon the person of particular religious community.. For examples Mohammaden Law applies upon Muslim and Hindu Law applies upon Hindus. At person some of the main provision of of Hindu Law have been codified. .Such as Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act,1956. Parsis and Christians are also governed by separate Acts i.e The Special Marriage Act, 1954. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 applicable to all Indian who have decided to marry under this Act irrespective of their religion.
Muslim Law in India means that portion of Islamic Civil Law which is applied to Muslim as a personal Law. It consists of the in junctions of Quran of the Traditions introduced by the practice of Prophet (Sunna) of the common opinion of the Jurists (Ijma) of the analogical deductions of these three (Qiyas) and of the pre-Islamic customs not abrogated by Prophet Mohammad. Further it has been supplemented by the juristic preference (Istihsan), public policy (Istislah, precedents (Taqlid) and independent, interpretation (Ijtihad). It has been further supplemented and modified by State Legislation and modern judicial precedents of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India and also of the Privy Council.
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