A Treatise of Marriage and Divorce: With the Practice and Procedure in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes: the Acts, Rules and Regulations Forms of Pleadings, and Table of FeesW. Ridgway, 1879 - 386 pages |
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Page 62 - ... no witness in any proceeding, whether a party to the suit or not, shall be liable to be asked or bound to answer any question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of adultery, unless such witness shall have already given evidence in the same proceeding in disproof of hie or her alleged adultery.
Page 230 - Court may from time to time, before making its final decree, 1 make such interim orders, and may make such provision in the final decree as It may deem just and proper with respect to the custody, maintenance, and education of the children...
Page 261 - ... incestuous adultery, or of bigamy with adultery, or of rape, or of sodomy or bestiality, or of adultery coupled with such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a divorce a mensa et thoro, or of adultery coupled with desertion, without reasonable excuse, for two years or upwards...
Page 264 - ... from time to time, before making its final decree, make such interim orders(«), and may make such provision in the final decree, as it may deem just and proper with respect to the custody, maintenance, and education of the children...
Page 263 - 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...
Page 262 - In case the Court shall be satisfied on the evidence that the case of the petitioner has been proved, and shall not find that the petitioner has been in any manner accessory to or conniving at the adultery of the other party to the marriage, or has condoned the adultery complained of, or that the petition is presented or prosecuted in collusion with either of the respondents, then the Court shall pronounce a decree declaring such marriage to be dissolved...
Page 261 - In every case of a judicial separation the wife shall, whilst £o separated, be considered as a feme sole for the purposes of contract, and wrongs and injuries, and suing and being sued in any civil proceeding ; and her husband shall not be liable in respect of any engagement or contract she may have entered into, or for any wrongful act or omission by her, or for any costs she may incur as plaintiff or defendant : Provided, that where upon 8.8.
Page 108 - Upon any such petition for the dissolution of a marriage, it shall be the duty of the court to satisfy itself, so far as it reasonably can, not only as to the facts alleged, but also whether or no the petitioner has been in any manner accessory to or conniving at the adultery or has^ condoned the same, and shall also inquire into any counter-charge which may be made against the petitioner.
Page 22 - I conceive that marriage, as understood in Christendom, may for this purpose be defined as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.
Page 109 - ... at any time during the progress of the cause or before the decree is made absolute any person may give information to Her Majesty's Proctor of any matter material to the due decision of the case...