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Court for divorce and matrimonial causes

Court for divorce and matrimonial causes. See MATRIMONIAL CAUSES.

Dissoluteness

State or quality of being dissolute looseness of morals and manners addictedness to sinful pleasures debauchery

Dissolutely

In a dissolute manner

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Adultery

ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not

Desertion

of the other for four years is a ground of divorce. It must be shown that there was wilful non-adherence; that

Mahr (dower)

payable upon demand, or deferred, that is payable upon the dissolution of marriage, whether by death or divorce. The dower (mahr)

Iddat period

divorced woman,-- (i) three menstrual courses after the date of divorce, if she is subject to menstruation; and (ii) three lunar

Marriage settlement

marriage. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 19(1), the Divorce Court is empowered, in cases where a marriage has been

Matrimonial causes

but were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (now a branch of the High Court

Wife

been a wife but for the decree of divorce or dissolution passed in the trial court, Sivakami Ammal v. Bangaruswami Reddi,

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