Family Law - dowry - recovery of dowry - Mohammedan law -
Mohammedan substituting temporary illicit relationship for valid marriage originally intended debarred by own misconduct from recovering
dowry on desertion by other party: In Mohammedan law it is the essence of marriage that the parties should intend to form a permanent
union and so a suitor who engages in a temporary illicit relationship does not contract a valid marriage even though that was originally intended; if he is later deserted by the other party, he will be debarred by his own misconduct from recovering any part of a dowry he might have paid.