DIVORCE IN BRITAIN
PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL
ALTERATION IN GROUNDS
LONDON, November 29. ,
Twenty-one years after the sittings of the Boyal Commission, on Divoreo-a private member's Bill is being introduced in the House of Commons, sponsored by Mr. ■G. W. Holford-Kuight (Nat. L.), Sir J. J. Withers (C), Mr. J. Slater (C), Colonel A. W. Goodman (C), Miss E. Kathbone (Ind.), and others on the lines,of the Commission's majority report. The Bill permits divorce by either party on any of the- following grounds: Adultery, desertion for three years, cruelty, certified lunatic for five years or an incurable drunkard, at least three years' separation, or the undergoing of imprisonment under a commuted death sentence.
The Court is also empowered to presume death after seven years' absence
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 13
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124DIVORCE IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 13
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