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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 Section 15

Procedure when female respondent refuses to cohabit with petitioner

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CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 Section 15 is part of CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 - Procedure when female respondent refuses to cohabit with petitioner. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

If the respondent be a female, and in answer to the interrogatories of the Judge or Commissioners, as the case may be, shall refuse to cohabit with the petitioner, the Judge, if upon consideration of the respondent's answers and of the facts which may have been proved by the petitioner he shall be of opinion that the ground for: such refusal is the petitioner's change of religion, shall make an order adjourning the case for a year, and directing that, in the interring, the parties shall, at such place and time as he shall deem convenient, have an interview of such length as the Judge shall direct, and in the presence of such person or persons (who may be a female or females) as the Judge shall select, with the view of ascertaining whether or not the respondent freely and voluntarily persists in such refusal.(Adjournment for a year.Interview.)

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Section Section 15 of the CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 (Procedure when female respondent refuses to cohabit with petitioner) is reproduced on this page as part of the CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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