RUSSIAN MARRIAGES
NOT RECOGNISED IN ENGLAND. MR JUSTICE HILL’S RULING, (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 17. (Received Dec. 18, at 5.6 p.m.) Mr Justice Hill, in the Divorce Court, heard a suit for judicial separation by Mrs Nachimson, who was formerly a Russian actress but is now residing in Surrey, She was married in Moscow in 1024 to a Russian mining engineer. Mr Justice Hall gave judgment that, the petitioner and the respondent had never been married within the meaning of the English law and they were not husband and wife. He did not possess Jurisdiction and the parties must go to the Soviet courts. He was fully con* scious of the difficulties arising from his refusal to recognise Russian marriages, but the Soviet created the difficulties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20904, 19 December 1929, Page 10
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