Section 31:
Disabilities of a Government ward.
(1) A Government ward shall be incompetent to transfer or
create any charge on, or interest in, his property or any part thereof (except such interest as may be created
by a will made in accordance with section 32), or to enter into any contract which may involve him in
pecuniary liability; and no suit shall be brought in any Civil Court whereby to charge any person upon any
promise made after he has ceased to be a Government ward to pay any debt contracted during the period
when he was a Government ward, or upon any ratification made after he has ceased to be a Government
ward of any promise or contract made during the period aforesaid, whether there is or is not any new
consideration for such promise or ratification.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the capacity of a Government ward to enter into a
contract of marriage:
Provided that a Government ward shall not incur, in connection with such a contract, any pecuniary
liability, except such as, having regard to the personal law to which he is subject and to his rank and
circumstances, the Court of Wards may, in writing, declare to be reasonable.