This law governs marriage within personal status matters, providing that gifts and promises do not by themselves create a marriage and regulating the recovery of gifts exchanged between betrothed parties if the engagement is broken or one party dies. It also sets the minimum marriageable ages for men and women and allo
The full text
This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1917. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.