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Connivance

connivance, the Court will not decree dissolution of the marriage, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (c. 85), ss. 29, 30.

Criminal conversation

Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 59; but s. 33 [replaced by the (English) Judicature

Full Court

Full Court. The Judge Ordinary, with two other members of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, constituted the Court of Appeal, and in some instances the Court of original jurisdiction, under the name of

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High Court of Justice

of Exchequer; (5) The Court of Admiralty; (6) The Court of Probate; (7) The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; (8) The Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster; (9) The Court of Pleas at Durham; (10) The Courts

Jactitation

a rare proceeding, may still be brought in the Divorce Court by the express terms of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 6 (replaced by (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 21), when

Marriage

in Cape Colony, by Roman Dutch law, see Horak v. Horak, (1861) 3 Searle, 389, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. Marriages Abroad.--A mixed Ecclesiastical and Common Law, is in force for parties, one at

Newspaper

calculated to injure public morals. The same Act makes it unlawful to print or publish in relation to matrimonial causes any particulars other than the names, addresses, and occupations of parties and witnesses; a concise statement of the

Rem, Judgment in

The chief instances are in the Admiralty Courts; foreign judgments, declar-ing status of a ship; or in the matrimonial causes, etc.; grants of probate or administration; con-demnation of goods by a competent tribunal, Geyer v. Aquilar, 7 TR

Supreme Court of Judicature

Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, and the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, should be united and consolidated together, and should constitute one Supreme Court of Judicature in England; the said

Accessory to adultery

of the other party to the marriage cannot obtain a divorce on the ground of such adultery, (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. C. 85), ss. 29, 31. See Browne on Divorce.

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