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District Court

under this Act the marriage was solemnized or, the husband and wife reside or last resided together. [Indian Divorce Act, 1869, s. 3 (3)] District Court means, in any area for which there is a city civil

Name

occur where this is done.' Marriage confers a name upon a woman, which is not lost by her divorce, and she can acquire another only by obtaining it by repute obliterating her name by marriage, see Fendall

Cui ante divortium

Cui ante divortium (to whom before divorce). A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had

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Compensatio criminum

was neutralized by that of the other, and both were restored to the position of innocent persons. See DIVORCE.

Minor children

years: In other cases it means unmarried children who have not completed the age of eighteen years. [Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (4 of 1869), s. 3 (5)]

Priest

Geo. 3, c. 43. See CLERGY. Means a Parsi priest and includes Dastur and Mobed. [Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936), s. 2 (8)]

Necessity, agent of

her station in life and for costs reasonably incurred in taking proceedings against him. A wife defending a divorce suit is not an agent of necessity as regards her costs, Arnold and Weaver v. Amari, (1928) 1

Sequestration

This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and upon the

Within

only for the iddat period and not beyond it. It would extend to the whole life of the divorced wife unless she gets married for a second time, Danial Latifi v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC

Unus Nullus Rule, The

(1894) 2 QB 415]; the same procedure will usually apply to the uncorroborated testimony of a party in divorce proceedings or the claimant of an estate. With these exceptions, the rule of our law is that witnesses

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