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Advocate

the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and the Court of Probate respectively. It is now vested in the High Court, see (English) Judicature Act,

Assize, or assise

acting under a commission of assize or any other commission issued under this section, to try and determine matrimonial causes of any class prescribed by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice and the

Judgment

in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100]. The several

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Collusion

of marriage is a bar to such suit by the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 178, replacing the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (c. 85), ss. 30 and 31; and a collusive penal action is no bar to a

Decree nisi

be shortened. See Osburne v. Osburne, (1926) 70 Sol Jo 388. See Browne on Divorce; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Matrimonial Causes.'

Divorce

of the marriage contract, grantable (after 31st December, 1937) to either a husband or wife under the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 51), amending the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, for

Mental cruelty

Mental cruelty, is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, (2002) 2 SCC 73. Mental cruelty in s.

Camera

been decided (contrary to what was commonly supposed to be the law) that no nullity suit or other matrimonial cause, whatever its nature, can be heard in camera unless justice cannot otherwise be administered; see Scott v. … decided (contrary to what was commonly supposed to be the law) that no nullity suit or other matrimonial cause, whatever its nature, can be heard in camera unless justice cannot otherwise be administered; see Scott v. Scott,

Co-respondent

the same principles and manner as actions for criminal conversation were tried before the commencement of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (partly repealed), and the provision of that Act with reference to the hearing and decision shall

Condonation

it is forgiveness, legally releasing the injury, by virtue of Judicature Act, 1925, s. 178, replacing the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, s. 30; Keats v. Keats, (1859) 28 LJP & M 57. When cruelty by a husband

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