Decree Absolute
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LARGE CROWD AT COURT Procedure is Purely Formal !ALL OVER IN SECONDS
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(Received 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. Mrs Ernest Simpson's divorce decree has Been made absolute. Within a few momenjs of the decision the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson were telephonically informed of the result. In fifty seconds less than a hundred worda were spoken by Sir Boyd Merri^ man, president, and the Clerk of tbe Court, who tben made absolute 83 decrees nisi, including Mrs Simpson's, which was number 56. Although merely a formal procedure hundreds were queued at the Divorce Court entrance and the president's Court was crowded when Judge Merriman took his seat on the bench beneath the rope and anchor which is the lymbolic sign of the probate, divorce and Admiralty division. Immediately the clerk rose and reading from the official list said: "Applications to make absolute deerees nisi in causes numbers one to 78 from the prineipal registries." Judge Merriman asked: "Does anyone appear to show cause why the deerees should not be made absolute?" There was a five seconds' pause
wherein silence reigned, after which Judge Merriman said: "I then pronounce the deerees nisi as made abao-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 7
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