Act Text
Preamble1 - Divorce Act, 1869
Chapter1 - Preliminary
Section1 - Short Title, Commencement of the Act
Section2 - Extent of Act
Section3 - Interpretation-clause
Chapter2 - Jurisdiction
Section4 - Matrimonial Jurisdiction of High Courts to Be Exercised Subject to Act-exception
Section5 - Enforcement of Decrees or Orders Made Heretofore by Supreme Court or High Court
Section6 - Pending Suits
Section7 - Court to Act on Principles of English Divorce Court(Repealed)
Section8 - Extraordinary Jurisdiction of High Court
Section9 - Reference to High Court
Chapter3 - Dissolution of Marriage
Section10 - Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage
Section10A - Dissolution of Marriage by Mutual Consent
Section11 - Adulterer or Adulteress to Be Co-respondent
Section12 - Court to Be Satisfied of Absence Ofcollusion
Section13 - Dismissal Ofpetition
Section14 - Power to Court to Pronounce Decree for Dissolving Marriage
Section15 - Relief in Case of Opposition on Certain Grounds
Section16 - Decrees for Dissolution to Benisi
Section17 - Power of High Court to Remove Certain Suits
Section17A - Appointment of officer to exercise duties of King's
Proctor (Repealed)
Chapter4 - Nullity of Marriage
Section18 - Petition for Decree Ofnullity
Section19 - Grounds of Decree
Section20 - Confirmation of District Judge's decree (Repealed)
Section21 - Children of Annulled Marriage
Chapter5 - Judicial Separation
Section22 - Bar to Decree for Divorce a Mensa Et Toro; but Judicial Separation Obtainable by Husband or Wife
Section23 - Application for Separation Made by Petition
Section24 - Separated Wife Deemed Spinster with Respect to After-acuqired Property
Section25 - Separated Wife Deemed Spinster for Purposes of Contract and Suing
Section26 - Reversal of Decree of Separation: Decree of Separation Obtained During Absence of Husband or Wife May Bereversed
Chapter6 - Protection-orders
Section27 - Deserted Wife May Apply to Court for Protection
Section28 - Court May Grant Protection-order
Section29 - Discharge or Variation Oforders
Section30 - Liability of husband seizing wife's property after notice of order
Section31 - Wife's legal position during continuance of
order
Chapter7 - Restitution of Conjugal Rights
Section32 - Petition for Restitution of Conjugal Rights
Section33 - Answerto Petition
Chapter8 - Damages and Costs
Section34 - Husband May Claimdamages from Adulterer(Repealed)
Section35 - Power to Order Adulterer Topay Costs(Repealed)
Chapter9 - Alimony
Section36 - Alimony Pendente Lite
Section37 - Powerto Order Permanent Alimony
Section38 - Courtmay Direct Payment of Alimony to Wife or to Her Trustee
Chapter10 - Settlements
Section39 - Power to
order sittlement of wife's property for benefit of husband and children (Repealed)
Section40 - Inquiry into Existence of Ante-nuptial or Post-nuptial Settlements
Chapter11 - Custody of Children
Section41 - Power to Make Orders as to Custody of Children in Suit for Separation
Section42 - Power to Make Such Orders After Decree
Section43 - Powerto Make Orders as to Custody of Children in Suits for Dissolution or Nullity
Section44 - Power to Make Such Orders After Decree or Confirmation
Chapter12 - Procedure
Section45 - Codeof Civil Procedure to Apply
Section46 - Formsof Petitions and Statements
Section47 - Petition to State Absence of Collusion
Section48 - Suitson Behalf of Lunatics
Section49 - Suitsby Minors
Section50 - Service of Petition
Section51 - Mode of Taking Evidence
Section52 - Competence of Husband and Wife to Give Evidence as to Cruelty or Desertion
Section53 - Power to Close Doors
Section54 - Power to Adjourn
Section55 - Enforcement Of, and Appeal From, Orders and Decree
Section56 - Appeal to the Supreme Court
Chapter13 - Re-marriage
Section57 - Liberty to Parties to Marry Again
Section58 - English Clergyman Not Compelled to Solemnize Marriages of Persons Divorced Foradultery
Section59 - English Minister Refusing to Perform Ceremony to Permit Use of His Church
Chapter14 - Miscellaneous
Section60 - Decree for Separation or Protection-order Valid as to Persons Dealing with Wife Before Reversal
Section61 - Bar of Suit for Criminal Conversation
Section62 - Power to Make Rules
Schedule1 - Schedule of Forms
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