Goa civil code: Difference between revisions

The '''Goa Civil Code''', also called the '''Goa Family Law''', is the set of civil [[laws]] that governs the residents of the Indian state of [[Goa]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=SC's example of Goa as a state with a Uniform Civil Code is inconsistent with Article 44|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/uniform-civil-code-supreme-court-article-44-6004340/|access-date=2021-12-05|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Goan Civil Code a shining example of Indian democracy|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/goan-civil-code-a-shining-example-of-indian-democracy/1619379|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-05|website=[[Outlook India]]}}</ref> The Goan civil code was introduced after [[Portuguese Goa and Damaon]] were elevated from being mere [[Portuguese colonies]] to the status of a ''[[Província Ultramarina]]'' ([[Overseas possession]]) in 1869 AD.<ref name="thehinducentre.com">{{Cite web|last=Mathew|first=C. K.|title=Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach|url=https://www.thehinducentre.com/publications/issue-brief/article29796731.ece|access-date=2021-12-05|website=The Hindu Center|language=en}}</ref> The Goan civil code is a Indianised variant of [[Portuguese Civil Code|Portuguese legal system]] that draws largely from [[Code Napoleon]], a common legal system in a number of [[Continental Europe]]an nations,<ref name="thehinducentre.com"/> [[Indian law]] mostly derives from [[English common law]] that was formulated and applied in [[British India]], and remains pegged to developments in the "Charter of the [[British Commonwealth]]". With a number of amendments, post the [[Partition of India]], Indian laws as a whole, have religion-specific [[civil codes]] that separately govern adherents of different religions; (like the [[Muslim personal law|Muslim]] and [[Hindu personal law|Hindu personal laws]],) and also has [[caste reservation]]s. Goa and Damaon are an exception to that rule, in that a single code governs all the native [[Goans]] and the native Damanese of [[Damaon, Diu& Silvassa]], irrespective of affiliation to [[religion]], [[ethnicity]]& [[social strata]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nandini Chavan|author2=Qutub Jehan Kidwai|title=Personal Law Reforms and Gender Empowerment: A Debate on Uniform Civil Code|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIMp5ctu_ngC&pg=PA245|access-date=17 January 2014|year=2006|publisher=Hope India Publications|isbn=978-81-7871-079-2|page=245}}</ref> [http://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/1819/1819-29-SI-OG-0.pdf The English translation of the civil code]| is available on the Government of Goa's [http://goaprintingpress.gov.in/ e-Gazette]| dated 19/10/2018.<ref>{{Citation|work=[[The Navhind Times]]|title=Translated Portuguese Civil Code published in official gazette|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/translated-portuguese-civil-code-published-in-official-gazette/|access-date=2018-10-24}}</ref>