A Handy Book on the New Law of Divorce & Matrimonial Causes ...

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Davis & Son, 1860 - 117 pages

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Page 66 - Court may from time to time, before making its final decree, make such interim orders, and may make such provision 1n the final decree, as it may deem just and proper with respect to the custody, maintenance, and education of the children...
Page 65 - Provided always, that the court shall not be bound to pronounce such decree if it shall find that the petitioner has during the marriage been guilty of adultery, or if the petitioner shall, in the opinion of the court, have been guilty of unreasonable delay in presenting or prosecuting such petition, or of cruelty towards the other party to the marriage, or of having deserted or wilfully separated himself or herself from the other party before the adultery complained of, and without reasonable excuse,...
Page 88 - ... is hereby required, within forty-eight hours from the last-mentioned hour, to admit that such of the said documents as are specified to be originals were respectively written, signed, or executed, as they purport respectively to have been...
Page 8 - ... or of having deserted or wilfully separated himself or herself from the other party before the adultery complained of, and without reasonable excuse, or of such wilful neglect or misconduct as has conduced to the [respondent's] adultery".
Page 64 - In every case of a judicial separation the wife shall from the date of the sentence, and whilst the separation shall continue, be considered as a feme sole with respect to property of every description which she may acquire, or which may come to or devolve upon her...
Page 34 - The only general rule that can be laid down upon the subject is, that the circumstances must be such as would lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just man to the conclusion...
Page 15 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Page 78 - Ireland, or the Channel Islands, or in any colony, island, plantation or place under the dominion of Her Majesty in foreign parts, before any Judge, Court, Notary Public or person lawfully authorised to administer oaths...
Page 82 - ... the cause or matter may be, unless at the trial or hearing the court or a judge shall certify that the refusal to admit was reasonable; and no costs of proving any document shall be allowed unless such notice be given, except where the omission to give the notice is, in the opinion of the taxing officer, a saving of expense.
Page 83 - No affidavit shall be read or made use of in any matter depending in Court in the jurat of which there shall be any interlineation or erasure.

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