OUR DIVORCE LAWS.
AM EN DAI EN T WANTED
Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 12. A deputation waited on tho Premier to-day to urgo an nmondinenit or tho divorco law. It was urged that a serious blemish was cast upon tho reputation of tho colony by tho use that was miado of. the section of tho Act which mado failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights a ground for divorce. Dr. Findlay explained that itho Act of IS9S was the first Act in which this section appoarod, and tliore had boon a certain amount of misapprolionsion as to its origin. In England, under tho Act of 1884, tliero was provision that whore an order for restitution of conjugal rights had been made and disobeyed it should ho deemed to be equivalent to desertion without reasonable cause for the period required by tho English Aot —two vears. When tho draughtsman of tho Bill of IS9B came to draw it lie embodied thp section Contained in Hie English Aot, obviously not recognising that ho was creating an entirely new ground of divorce. Tho Premier said the Government would submit legislation to remove what wins admittedly a gross abuse of the divorce laws.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2157, 13 August 1907, Page 3
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203OUR DIVORCE LAWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2157, 13 August 1907, Page 3
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