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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... PAGI A wife who has in Scotland obtained a decree of divorce a mensd et toro may after-wards apply for decree a vinculo.. Geils v. Geils t;o Divorce--Husband and Wife--Jurisdiction--Domicile--P., a younger son of an English peer, and born in England, married there Mrs. P. in 1845. Being greatly in debt in 1854, and leaving his wife in England, where she ever since remained, he went to Scotland to avoid his creditors, and joined a friend in shooting quarters there. In 1858 he took a six years' shooting lease of a place in Scotland, and remained there till 1S60. From 1854 to i860, he resided continuously in Scotland, making a flying visit occasionally to England, to sec his friends and Mrs. P., with whom he corresponded all that time. In i860 he raised, in the Court of Session, an action of divorce against Mrs. P. on the ground of her adultery in England in 1858. HELD (reversing judgment), That P. had not acquired a domicile in Scotland, bis main object in going there being to hide from his creditors--(Dubitante Lord KlXGS-DOWN.) Question--Even if P. had acquired a domicile in Scotland, whether the domiciltof Mrs. P. could be deemed constructively to be in Scotland, so as to give jurisdiction to the Scotch Court--(lord Kingsdown affirmative--LORD Westburv negative.) Opinion--Where an English husband, leaving his wife in England, goes to Scotland and resides there, but not so as to acquire a Scotch domicile, and even though his object was not to institute a suit of divorce there, the Scotch Court has no jurisdiction to enter-tain such suit--Per Lord Westbury L. C. Pitt v. Pitt 1:5;--For adultery--Forfeiture by party of donatio propter nuptias--1573, c. 53. Held (affirming judgment), That on divorce for adultery the offending spouse for-feits to the other all...
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