DESTITUTE PERSONS ACT
■ 'AN; INTERESTING ! JUDGMENT.' ' , • By Telegraph.—Press Association. : ' Wanganui, July 5. , Mr. Kerr, S.M., gave an interesting Judgment to-day in a caes under tho' Destitute Persons Act, Zemanek v. Zemanek;: Complainant, a married -.woman, who .was before her marriage : a ; British subject, applied for an order of maintenance against her Husband, an iinnaturalised - Austrian. It was aubmitted for tho defendant .that the Court had 110 jurisdiction, because, since May, 1870, a. female British subject becomes an alien by marrying an- alien, and that . she could not stand in a better position- .than,. her. husband,. who, ' 'as ; an alion enemy, had no rights at common law. , .-...Th'd .Magistrate, held that the Desti'tute Persons - Act. puts the: husband un- :j der. an obligation to maintain, his-wife, and that such obligation gives the i .wife a correlative right to such main-:| tonance,*'further, that a Gazette pub-1 lished by . .the Government at 'the outbreak of tho- war gives all enemy subjects .-'.within ' the Dominion the same rights to sue and plead -as other 1 subjects of His Majesty. The apphqation was accordingly granted. : .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 7
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180DESTITUTE PERSONS ACT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 7
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