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'THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR 'THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR COURTS AND LAWS CODE, 1949 CHAPTER-V SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS 48. Laws to be administered. In questions regarding Inheritance to land, Immovable property, Rent and Goods, Successions, Special property of females; Betrothal Marriage, Divorce including all forms of dissolution of family relations, Wills, Legacies, Gifts, Partitions, Contracts or any Religious usage or institutions the rule of decisions shall be: (a) The Hindu Law where the parties are Hindus; (b) The Islamic Shariat according to codified "Shar'a Mohammadi" "(Mohammadan Law)" where the parties are Muslims; (c) the dictates of justice, equity and good conscience according to law of the defendant or any law in force in all other cases.