MIXED MARRIAGES.
ALIENS AND BRITISH SUBJECTS.
RIGHTS OF MAINTENANCE. Press Association. WANGANUI, July G. Mr Kerr, S.M., gave an interesting judgment to-day in a case under the Destitute Persons Act, Zemanck v. Zcmanik. The complainant, a married woman, who was before her marriage a British subject, applied for maintenance against her husband, who is an unnaturaliscd Austrian. It was submitted for defendant that since May, 1870, a female British subject becomes an alien by marrying an alien, and that she could not stand in a better position than her husband, who, as an alien enemy, had no rights in common law. The Magistrate held.that the Destitute Persons Act puts a husband under an obligation to maintain his wife, and such obligation gives his wife a correlative right to such maintenance. Further, the "Gazette" published by the Governor at the outbreak of war gives all enemy subjects within the Dominion the same rights to sue and plead as other subjects of his Majesty. The application was accordingly granted.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 438, 6 July 1915, Page 11
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167MIXED MARRIAGES. Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 438, 6 July 1915, Page 11
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