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Desertion
Mutiny Acts, and Reg. v. Cuming, (1887) 19 QBD 13. Also (2) an abandonment of a wife, a matrimonial offence, for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of
Nullity of marriage
Nullity of marriage, a matrimonial suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining a decree, declaring that a supposed marriage in null and void.
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
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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
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has been substituted for this kind of divorce by the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict., c. 85), s. 7, now repealed and replaced by the Judicature
Advocate
the degree of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and the Court of
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
Maintenance
Estates Act, 1925, s. 47 (1) (ii.), and Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 6; and as to maintenance in matrimonial cases, Judic. Act, 1925, ss. 187, 190 et seq.; for the law before 1926, consult Jarman or Godefroi
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
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.
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