Earl Russell v Countess Russell (Cross Appeal)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 16 July 1897 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1897] UKHL J0716-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 16 July 1897 |
[1897] UKHL J0716-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th days of June, as Thursday the 2nd and Tuesday the 14th days of July 1896, upon the Petition and Cross Appeal of the Right Honourable John Francis Stanley, Earl Russell, of Amberley Cottage, Maidenhead, in the County of Berks, praying that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of August 1895, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, by granting to the Petitioner a Decree for a judicial separation, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the Right Honourable Mabel Edith, Countess Russell, lodged in answer to the said Cross Appeal, and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of August 1895, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Cross Appeal be, and the same is hereby,...
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