DIVORCE LAW
A DOMICILE PROBLEM.
[pee press association.]
WELLINGTON, July 8.
In the Court of Appeal in the case Worth v. Worth, the Solicitor-General, submitted that the legislation in question was intra vires and valid, and that a divorce should in this case be granted. The legislation was indistinguishable in principle from the Divorce Amendment Act of IS9B, which the Full Court had not held to be valid in the Poingdestres’ case (1909). The legislation of 1898 was as much an infringement of the rules of private international law as the legislation before the Court. The fact that any decree made by the Court would have no effect outside of New Zealand was immaterial. It was no concern of the Court. In the exercise of its full control and authority, in the Dominion, Parliament was iji no way restricted by the fact that such 'exercise might, incidentally, affect the proprietary rights, and status, within New Zealand, of persons without it. The Court reserved its decision.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 3
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