Divorce for Adultery in UK Law

  • The Privilege Against Self‐Incrimination As To Adultery Should It Be Abolished?
    • No. 23-3, May 1960
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... House of Parliament, instituted in consequence of adultery.” It will be remembered that at this time there was no divorce, except by Act of Parliament, and all matri- monial proceedings were in the ecclesiastical courts. The Matrimonial Causes ... ...
  • THE EFFECT OF MARRIAGE UPON PROPERTY IN SCOTS LAW1
    • No. 19-6, November 1956
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... the Report of the Royal Commission on Mnrringo nnd Divorce (Cmd. 1956, No. 9678) and takes no occount of its ... a husband to maintain a wife who has committed adultery until decree of divorce has been pronounced.s3 The ... ...
  • Notes Of Cases
    • No. 16-1, January 1953
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... Cruelty, like desertion, is a ground for divorce which cannot easily be defined in the abstract. It is not an ... since the Reformation, has allowed divorce for adultery to either spouse or to both spouses, and has, since 1578, ... ...
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 22-5, September 1959
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... v. F., before a Divisional Court of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. In this the court was asked to ... , both cohabiting with her husband and committing adultery. It was admitted that the husband regularly used sheath ... ...
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 7-3, July 1944
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... , the case is of importance outside the law of divorce, because of the way in which Hodson, J., decided it. The ... in divorce) for damages for adultery, thereby implying that it does apply to other claims in divorce ... ...
  • Christian Divorce Law in Pakistan: Past, Present and Future
    • No. 4-1, April 2019
    • Cambridge Law Review
    • 169-182
    The law governing the divorce of Christians in Pakistan was enacted through the Divorce Act 1869 during the British colonial period in India. To ensure incremental changes in this law, section 7 of...
    ... ... The Gospel ... of Matthew states: ‘whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries ... another woman commits adultery’.2 ... The divorce laws of many Christian countries, ... therefore, provide only limited grounds for divorce. In the United Kingdom, the ... Church ... ...
  • THE REVIVAL OF A MATRIMONIAL OFFENCE BY SUBSEQUENT MISCONDUCT
    • No. 8-3, July 1945
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... three years, which is not of itself a ground for divorce or judicial separation,l sufficient to make a condoned ... above the petitioner was the husband, who proved adultery in July, 1941, against his wife, which he condoned in August, ... ...
  • THE DIVORCE REFORM ACT 1969
    • No. 33-6, November 1970
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... Previous doubts as to the standard of proof, especially in relation to adultery, were due partly to the use of the same word, “ satisfLed,” in section 5 (8) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 and ... ...
  • IS A DISCRETION STATEMENT REALLY NECESSARY?
    • No. 21-1, January 1958
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... A DISCRETION STATEMENT REALLY NECESSARY? IN a suit for divorce or judicial separation the petitioner’s own adultery is a ... ...
  • Book Review: Adultery: Infidelity and the Law
    • No. 27-1, February 2018
    • Social & Legal Studies
    • 0000
    ... ...  role in child custodyand property division than formerly, and there is no mention of it still constituting aground for divorce ... ...
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