Divorce for Adultery in UK Law
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The Privilege Against Self‐Incrimination As To Adultery Should It Be Abolished?
...... 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 ......
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THE EFFECT OF MARRIAGE UPON PROPERTY IN SCOTS LAW1
...... 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 ......
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Notes Of Cases
...... 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, ......
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NOTES OF CASES
...... 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 ......
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NOTES OF CASES
......, 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 ......
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Adultery: A Comparative Study of Criminal Sanctions
...... materiel' and the latter 'element intentionnel'i" played a significant role in establishing adultery in Court." Article 17 of the French Divorce Reform Law of 1975 finally abolished the penalty for adultery.P an institution which existed in all legal systems since the time immemorial. ......
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Historical Background
...... will focus on a comparative analysis based on the chosen adultery laws both in common law and civil law influenced systems. Islamic law ... not considered as a crime.I? However, a husband who wanted a divorce through Parliament had to establish a criminal action first based on ......
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Book Review: Adultery: Infidelity and the Law
...... role in child custodyand property division than formerly, and there is no mention of it still constituting aground for divorce......
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THE REVIVAL OF A MATRIMONIAL OFFENCE BY SUBSEQUENT MISCONDUCT
...... 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, ......
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THE DIVORCE REFORM ACT 1969
...... 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 ......
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