Divorce Act - Law Dictionary Search Results
Judge
(English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 1935 (25 Geo. 5, c. 2), s. 1. In the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division there is the President and two judges. In the Court of Appeal, in addition to
Divorced woman
or has obtained divorce from, her husband in accordance with Muslim law. [Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 (25 of 1986), s. 2 (a)]
Divisions of the High Court
five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most part those who sat in the … Divisions of the High Court (see new Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 1-5). The High Court of Justice, crated by the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict.
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Nullity of marriage
respectively, with reference to the intervention of the king's proctor, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. See INTERVENTION, and Browne and Latey, Divorce.
Cruelty
Divroce; and see HUSBAND AND WIFE, and ANIMALS. Since 1923 cruelty is no longer a necessary elementin a divorce petition by a woman; see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 176, which displaces the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act,
Decree nisi
Decree nisi. By the (English) Judicature Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made
merger
bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, res judicata 5 : the superseding of a prior agreement in a divorce case by the divorce decree 6 a : the act or process of merging b : absorption by
annulment
the state of being annulled 2 : a declaration by a court that a marriage is invalid compare divorce … annulment 1 : the act of annulling : the state of being annulled 2 : a declaration by a court that a marriage
Proctor
s. 69, awarded compensation to the proctors, and admitted them to practise, not only in the Probate and Divorce Courts, but also in the Courts of Equity and Common Law. The Solicitors Act, 1877, s. 17, allows
Income
Act, 1914, P. Veerasamy v. Official Assignee, (1999) 2 SCC 505. Maintenance ordered to be paid by the Divorce Division to a bankrupt wife during the joint lives of herself and her former husband, was held to
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