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Intervention
Intervention. A third person not originally a party to a suit, but claiming an interest in the matter, may interpose at any stage of the suit in defence of his own interest, whenever affected either as...
Jactitation
Jactitation [fr. jactito, Lat., to boast], a false pretension to marriage, Canon Law. The suit of actitation of marriage (jactitationis matri-monii causa), though a rare proceeding, may still be brought in the Divorce Court by the...
Judge Ordinary
Judge Ordinary, the juge of the Court for Divorce.
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King's proctor
King's proctor, the proctor or solicitor representing the Crown in the Probate and Divorce Court. In proper cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to...
Maritime Courts
Maritime Courts. These were formerly the High Court of Admiralty and its Court of appeal, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. But by the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 16, the jurisdiction of the High...
Grievous hurt
Grievous hurt, Grievous hurt.-- The following kinds of hurt only are designated as 'grievous': First.--Emasculation. Secondly.--Permanent privation of the sight of either eye. Thirdly.--Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear. Fourthly.--Privation of any member or...
Marriage with another woman
Marriage with another woman, mean marriage of any person, being married, to any other person, during the life of the former wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place within India or elsewhere. [Divorce Act,...
High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, has replaced with amendments the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). The earlier Act abolished the former Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose...
Firman
the field, that alone would govern or regulate the rights of the parties concerned, though it could be annulled or modified by a later 'Firman' at any time that the Nizam willed, Ameer-un-Nissa Begum v. Mahboob Begum,
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