"READY-MADE DESERTION.”
THE PRESENT DIVORCE LAW. AMENDMENT NOT YET OPERATIVE. OHRISTOHRCH. Dec. 5. At a divorce sitting Of t-lie SuneT,e?l Urt to ' da - v ’ Mr - Resell apfn,- ? r ■V’ P S ort of an application rm a dissolution of marriage, the ground alleged being the failure of the respondent to comply with an rights f ° r th ° restitution of conjugal . His Honor saiel he had not seen i , , session. He supposed c T?. submitted for the assent or H,is Majesty, but the Act ivas certainly intended to do away with that sort of thing. Mr. Russell said lie did not think the_Act had any retrospective action. His Honor said he thought there was a reservation to the effect that ’ too Act should not nreiudice any impending proceedings. Ho understood that from a press report, but if the. assumption was wrong the decree'would be void, and Mr. 'Russell would have to apply to have it rescinded. In the meantime ho Would take the law as he found it at present. In granting the decree. His: Honor said that this foi'm of readvmade desertion had attracted the attention of Parliament, but until the law was altered parties were entitled to the advantages of tile system.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 6 December 1907, Page 2
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