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(1) Notwithstanding any custom, usage, rule or any law to the contrary, no marriage contracted by a woman being a Devdasi shall be invalid and no issue of such marriage shall be illegitimate by reason only of such woman being a Devdasi. (2) Co-habitation by any man with a Devdasi as husband and wife for a reasonably long period under the same roof shall, prima facie, raise the presumption of legal and valid marriage subsisting between the two of them and any offspring of such co-habitants shall be legitimately entitled to have the hereditary right in the property of such couple, as per the personal law by which such persons are being governed.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>1</i>) Notwithstanding any custom, usage, rule or any law to the contrary, no marriage contracted by a woman being a <i>Devdasi</i> shall be invalid and no issue of such marriage shall be illegitimate by reason only of such woman being a <i>Devdasi</i>. <br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>2</i>) Co-habitation by any man with a <i>Devdasi</i> as husband and wife for a reasonably long period under the same roof shall, <i>prima facie</i>, raise the presumption of legal and valid marriage subsisting between the two of them and any offspring of such co-habitants shall be legitimately entitled to have the hereditary right in the property of such couple, as per the personal law by which such persons are being governed.<br>