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Matrimonial causes

Matched in: Term Matrimonial causes

Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1857-1923; 1925 and 1937 (English)

Matched in: Term Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1857-1923; 1925 and 1937 (English)

Court for divorce and matrimonial causes

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Consistorial causes

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Cruelty

veneral diseaseis suchconduct, Browning v. Browning, 1911, p. 161. See (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, replacing (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 16, and the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Mrried Women) Act, … elementin a divorce petition by a woman; see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 176, which displaces the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c.19), s. 1. What constitute cruelty must depend upon the terms

Desertion

husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as to orders for the protection of the

Nullity of marriage

purpose of obtaining a decree, declaring that a supposed marriage in null and void. See MARRI-AGE. The (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1873 (36 Vict. c. 31), extended to proceedings for nullity of marriage the provisions of the (English) … Act, 1873 (36 Vict. c. 31), extended to proceedings for nullity of marriage the provisions of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Acts of 1860 and 1866, ss. 7 and 3 respectively, with reference to the intervention of the king's

Adultery

called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant … sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on

Husband and wife

respect of any such debts. Proceedings in connection with the rights of mar-riage are regulated by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1925 and 1937, and the Judicature Act, 1925. See DIVORCE and MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. Proceedings of husband and … regulated by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1925 and 1937, and the Judicature Act, 1925. See DIVORCE and MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. Proceedings of husband and wife against each other in respect of property are regulated by the 12th, 16th,

A mensa et thoro

of the other. A decree of judicial separation has been substituted for this kind of divorce by the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict., c. 85), s. 7, now repealed and replaced by the Judicature Act, … 21 Vict., c. 85), s. 7, now repealed and replaced by the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 85. See MATRIMONIAL CAUSES; DIVORCE

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