THE LAW OF DIVORCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13749, 11 September 1908, Page 5

THE LAW OF DIVORCE.

,—, — A TECHNICAL DEFECT. • By Electric Telegraph. -r-Copyright. (Received Sept. 11, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 11. Mr Justice Simpson, in the Divorce Court raised the question whether proof of service «ipon a party to^a divorce suit residing in New Zealand could be "&c£epted by the /Court. It had been the practice of the Court for 1 years, he said, to have petitions served upon people beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. The time had oome* when the Court / should decide whether thai was 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 of France, vlf the practice was not legal, it would bar a great many divorces, and,^ if in future the point was argued and a higher Court decided that there was no jurisdiction, the decision would invalidate' hundreds of divorces that had bjßen granted.