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''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]].'' In India, as a whole, there are religion-specific civil codes that separately govern adherents of different religions. Goa is an exception to that rule, in that a single code governs all Goans, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or linguistic affiliation.<ref name="Nandini Chavan">Nandini Chavan and Qutub Jehan Kidwai, "
Personal Law Reforms and Gender Empowerment: A Debate on Uniform Civil Code", Hope India Publications, 2006;Pg 245, ISBN 978-81-7871-079-2</ref>
== History ==
The Goa civil code is largely based on the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[Portuguese Civil Code|civil code]] (''Código Civil Português'') of 1867,<ref name="Madhava Menon">N. R. Madhava Menon (Editor), "Criminal Justice India Series, Vol. 9 : Goa 2002", Allied Publishers, 2002;Pg 133, ISBN 978-81-7764-517-0</ref> with some modifications based on the Portuguese Decrees on Marriage and Divorce of 1910,<ref>{{citation|title=Lei do Divórcio: Decreto de 3 de Novembro de 1910}}</ref> the Portuguese Decrees on Canonical Marriages of 1946,<ref>{{cite web|title=Decreto 35.461: regula o casamento nas colónias portuguesas|url=http://www.dre.pt/pdf1s/1946/01/01500/00430048.pdf}}</ref> and the Portuguese Gentile Hindu Usages Decrees of 1880.<ref name="Nandini Chavan"/><ref>''Código de usos e costumes dos hindus gentios de Goa''</ref>
== References ==
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