PECULIAR DIVORCE CASE.
PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. Timabu, May 25.
At the Supreme Court sittings to-day, a case for nullification of marriage came from Ashburton, the wife being the applicant. The ground of the action was that she was a half-blood niece oE her husband. The defence claimed tlic literal reading of the table of prohibitions which mentions nieces not lialf-neices. Judge Cooper ruled that the laws of tho Ecclesiastical Court applied and these prohibited marriages of half-blood relations in that degree A decree nisi was granted. A peculiar I ity of Iho case was that both parties desired tho application to fail, but wished to test the legality of the marriage.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19060526.2.9.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8120, 26 May 1906, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
111PECULIAR DIVORCE CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8120, 26 May 1906, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in