Goa Civil Code fragmented into Act without Public Debate

The Goa Civil Code or Goa Family Laws in force at present in Goa is a comprehensive set of civil laws governing our state for all its citizens born in the state of Goa, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or language affiliation for civil rights for marriage and inheritance of property.
Whilst the rest of India has such civil laws based on religion, Goa has a distinct civil law of a single Code for all its citizens without religious adherence, adopted from the Portuguese Civil Code, 1867.   The present ruling party in governance at the Centre is recommending this unique Civil code to be extended throughout India and in this regard has asked the Law Commission of India to study the same. The translations of the Portuguese Civil Code by well known legal eagles who are conversant in Portuguese Laws have been called for, by the Law Commission of India  for its  in-depth study, to extend it for the rest of the country.
The passing of a separate The Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory Proceeding Bill, 2012, is a great misconception which will be brought into force from 21st instant.  It will result in dismantling the Unified Civil Code of our state.
The Goa civil Code covers general principles of law and jurisprudence, rights, property, possession of property, family law i. e. marriage and succession and even civil wrongs.
By passing   an Act and removing an important portion of the civil code, the Goan legal system is totally downgraded. A code is the highest form of legislation whilst Act is the lowest. Codes are framed by combining together loose acts.  But in our state a magnificent code is being ruined by splitting it into loose acts. There is no greater legal atrocity. It shows lack of legal culture and ignorance of jurisprudence and legal theory. No civilized Nation would introduce an Act by fragmenting an existing civil code.
By having passed  a separate Act for succession and inventories it will surely create a legal chaos for our lawyers and judges, besides pedestrianizing our legal system. We will be compelled to refer and deal with the booklets of family laws, Volume I and Volume II, as also the proposed Goa succession, special notaries and inventory proceeding Act, in addition to the old civil code of 1867 , the Civil procedure code and so on and so forth.Thus it will only add to the confusion instead of having  solved the legal tangles and pending legal disputes..
 It appears that just because it has been drafted it has been pushed through on the pretext that it is in English and so it will facilitate the legal fraternity, without actually going into its implications for all concerned.
Even a lay person knows that in every inventory proceedings there exist a marriage after all succession cannot take place without a marriage. Therefore the succession and marriage law should be in one code.
Similarly as inventory is also about partition of property, therefore property law should be part of the same code.
It is surprising that there has been no public or legal debate on this subject. Public opinion was also not sounded since civil code concerns the entire society and not just lawyers.
 The whole exercise seems to be done in a hushed up manner inspite of protest from the year 2005.
The reason given for passing the new act is that it is prepared by eminent lawyers and nobody can question it.
If the persons are so eminent one wonders how they could commit such a blunder. The lawyers who had filed their objections were not even heard for their expert views. The same persons who drafted the bill became judges in their own cause and there was no open public debate.
The final decision was taken by persons who neither know Portuguese language nor Portuguese civil code nor even law of any kind.  

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