Personal law - Indian Laws - General

Meaning of term personal law In Blacks Law Dictionary (10th edition, 2014), as follows: The law that governs a person s family matters, regardless of where the person goes. In common law systems, personal law refers to the law of the person s domicile. In civil- law systems, it refers to the law of the individual s nationality (and so is sometimes called lex patriae). Reference was also made to the definition of the term personal law in Conflict of Laws 188 (7th edition, 1974) by R.H. Graveson, who defined the term as under: The idea of the personal law is based on the conception of man as a social being, so that those transactions of his daily life which affect him most closely in a personal sense, such as marriage, divorce, legitimacy, many kinds of capacity, and succession, may be governed universally by that system of law deemed most suitable and adequate for the purpose Reference - SHAYARA BANO VERSUS AAFREEN REHMAN- 2017 (9) TMI 1302 - SUPREME COURT