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DIVORCE ACT. 59
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In Accordance With The Suggestion Of Our...
sole '( independent of her husband ) sue , and be sued for debts , provided , if alimony , ( separate support ) has _Tbeen decreed to be paid for to necessaries her , and the
husband should fail to pay the same , he shall be liable supplied XXVII for her . It use shall . be lawful for any husband or wife to petition the Court bi
for adultery of sodomy dissolution would or bestiality of have marriage entitled , or in adultery her cases to a of divorce coup adultery led d with mensa , incest for such et two , thoro cruelty gamy , or , of or as adultery rape without , or
permits and coupled every with the such desertion facts petition on , which without shall the state reasonable claim , as distinctl to excuse have y such , as the marriage nature years or dissolved of upwards the case is ;
be if founded his taken wife , : to Provided were mean dead adultery that he for could committed the not purposes lawfull by a of y husband this contract Act with incestuous marriage a woman adultery by with reason whom shall of and
bi her being shall within be taken the prohibited to mean marriage degrees of of any consanguinity person being or married affinity to ; any second other gamy person marriage during shall the have life taken of the place former within husband the dominions or wife of , whether her Majesty the
or elsewhere . shall XX make VIII . the Upon alleged any adulterer such petition a co- presented respondent by to a the husband said petition the petitioner , unless excused from
doing on special ; and grounds on every , to petition be allowed presented by the by Court a wife , he for shall dissolution be of marriage so , the is or alleged either Court of , to if them have it see committed may fit , insist may adultery direct on having that be the made the person contested a respondent with matters whom ; and the of the fact husband parties tried
by X a XIX jury . as Upon hereinafter any such mentioned petition . for the dissolution of a marriage , it shall manner and as be to the shal the duty accessory l facts also of the alleged inquire to Court or , but conniving into to also satisf any whether y counter at itself the , - adultery or so charge no far the as which , it petitioner or reasonabl has may condoned be has y made can been , the not against in same onl any y ,
the XXX petitioner . In case . the Courton the evidence in relation to any such petition , shall not be satisfied that the , alleged adultery has been committed , or shall
find at the that adultery the petitioner of the has other during party the marriage to the marriage been accessory , or has to condoned or conniving the adultery collusion comp with lained either of of , or the that respondents the petition , then is and presented in any or of prosecuted the said cases in
the XXXI Court . shall In case dismiss the C the ourt said shall petition be satisfied . on the evidence that the case of the is the in presented any petitioner marriage manner , or has prosecuted accessory has been condoned proved to in or collusion the , conniving and adultery shall with not at comp either the find adultery lained that of the the of respondents , of or petitioner the that other the has then party petition been the to
Provided Court shall always or pronounc , that e the a decree Court shall declarin not g be such bound the marriage to pronounce to been be such dissolved , decree of :
if guilty adultery it shall of , unreasonable or find if the that petitioner the delay petitioner in shall _j ) res , enting has in the during or op prosecuting inion marriage of the such Court petition , deserted have guilty , been or of
wilfull cruelty towards separated the himself other or party herself to the from marriage the other , or party of having before the adultery or complained y of , and without reasonable excuse , or of such wilful neglect or
that misconduct XXXII the husband . as Th has e Court shall conduced to may the , to if satisfaction the it shall adultery think of . the fit Court , on any secure such to the decree wife , order such
h gross er own sum . li of fe money asha , ving or such rega annual rd to her sum fo of rt money une , ( if , for any any , ) to term the not ability exceeding of her
husbandand , to , the conduct of the partiesit shall deem reasonable , and for , ,
Divorce Act. 59
DIVORCE ACT . 59
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/59/
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