ENACTMENT No. 1 Of 1959
ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW
PART III - RELIGIOUS COURTS-CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Enactment, a Court of a Kathi shall have jurisdiction in respect of any civil or criminal matter of the nature hereinafter specified arising within the local limits of jurisdiction prescribed for it under the preceding section, or, if no local limits are so prescribed, within the State, and shall be presided over by the Kathi appointed thereto.
(3) The Court of the Kathii Besar shall-
(b) in its civil jurisdiction, hear and determine all actions and proceedings in which all the parties profess the Muslim Religion and which relate to:
(ii) any disposition of, or claim to property arising out of any of the matters set out in sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph;
(iii) maintenance of dependants, legitimacy, guardianship or custody of infants;
(iv) division inter vivos of sa-pencharian property;
(v) wakaf or nazr; or
(vi) other matters in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred bv any written law:
(4) Except as otherwise prorided in any written law, the Court of a Kathi shall-