DIVORCE COURT PROCEDURE
JUDGE RAISES AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, Hy Telegraph—Presß Association—Copyright SYDNEY", September XI. Mr Justice Simpson, in the Divorce Court, raised the question whether proof of service upon a party to a divorce suit residing in New Zealand could he accepted by the Oourt. It had, he said, been the practice of tbe Court for many years to have petitions served upon people beyond tbe jurisdiction of tbe Court, but the time had come when they should decide whether that was the correct practice. As far as the Court was concerned, a man in New Zealand was as much a foreigner as if he resided in a village in France. If the practice was not legal it would bo a bar to a great many divorces, and if in tho future the point was argued, and a higher Court decided there was no jurisdiction, the decision would invalidate hundreds of divorces that had been granted.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 9
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