Personal Status Law for the Druze Monotheist Community

Type

Law

Date of the text

24/02/1948

Official Gazette

published in 1948

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

173

What it provides

This law sets the minimum marriage age for members of the Druze community and lets the sheikh al-aql or the religious judge authorize marriages of minors under conditions. It also bans marrying very young children and persons with incurable transmissible illnesses, requiring medical certificates before approval.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 0/1959 of 02/07/1959, articles 17,18
• Amended by Law No. 58/2017 of 17/10/2017, articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1948. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.