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    57 DIVORCE ACT.

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    In Accordance With The Suggestion Of Our...

    effect signed as by if him it had ; and been every a jud such gment judgm of ent the shall Court have for Divorce the same and force Matri and

    monial Causes . tical VI courts . Enacts having that all ceased jurisdiction is to be vested and power in the hitherto _JSTew Court possessed appointed by ecclesias bthis

    -Actand exercised in the , name of her Majesty , as a Court of Record , y to be sty VII led , . the Abolishes " Court decrees for Divorce for divorce and Matrimonial d mensd Causes et thoro . " and establishes in

    their steaddecrees for judicial separation , which are to , have the same force , and consequences . the Court of

    VIII . The Lord Chancellorthe Lord Chief Justices of Queen ' s Exchequer Bench and , Court and the of Jud Common ge of , Pleas the Court , the of Lord Probate Chief , to Baron be Jud of ges the of Court the _JSTew of

    Court IX . constituted The Jud b of y this the Act Court . of Probate shall be the Ordinary Judge of the ] _STewCourt ge and possess all the power conferred by this Act , except in

    trials the X special . or Petitions __ issues cases , before for mentioned the a jury dissolution in , to the be next tried of a clause b marriage y the . Judge , and of app Probate lications and for two new of

    the XI other . During Judges the before temporary mentioned absence . of the Judge Ordinary , ( Judge of Probate , J the Lord Chancellor may the by writing Vice Chancellor authorise the Master Jud of of the the

    Rolls Superior , the Courts Judge , to of exercise the Admiralty all the , jurisdiction and power , or of any the said ge Judge Ordinary XIIThe . Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes shall hold its sittings

    at such . places in London or Middlesex , or elsewhere , as her Majesty in Council XIV may The appoint istrars . and other officers of the Court of Probate shall be

    the officers . of Reg the _JN ~ ew Divorce Court . practising XV . All in Barrister any court s , , may Advocates institute , legal Proctors proceedings , Attorneys in the , Court and Solicitors apj > ointed ,

    by XVI this . Act A sentence for trying of divorce judicial cases separation . may be obtained by husband or wife The for following adultery clause . in all cases of lication for restitution of conjugal

    noted rights , to or avoid judicial useless separation and expensive , made by liti app husband gation . or It wife enacts , should that be the speciall party y

    should XVII proceed . Alication by petition for restitution . of conj ugal rights or for judicial separation pp of the grounds aforesaid be made beither husband or wife

    on any one may y , b county y petition in which to the the Court husband , or to any and Jud wife ge of reside Assize or * last at the resided assizes together held for and the

    which mine such Judge petition of Assize , according is hereby to authorised the rules and and required regulations to hear which and shall deter , be - and the Court to which such

    petition made contained under is addressed and the that authority there , on being of is thi no satisfied s legal Act ; ground of the truth why the of or the same Judge allegations should therein not be

    Assize for granted according alimony to , may l whom , y , which and decree such where shall such petition the be restitution deemed app shall lication be just of presented : conj is Provided by ugal the rig wife alw hts refer , ays or may , judicial the that make same any separation any to Judge any order of of

    her Maj esty _? ' s Counsel or Serjeants _° -at-Law named may in the Commission of Assize or JN _TVT isi - _« Pnus T » etc , .

    f or XVIII the custod . Th , e Jud mai ges nten ance Assize and shall education possess of the children power . to make provision

    y , , issued Divorce * The by cases pr the ovisions Jud , are ges in at directing the present Act , enabling the entirel mode y Jud nugatory of app ges lication of , Assize no orders to to them exercise of . Court jurisdiction having been in

    57 Divorce Act.

    57 DIVORCE ACT .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/57/