The Law Reports (Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division)
[1935] P 39
[PROBATE, DIVORCE AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION]
RUSSELL W. D. (COUNTESS RUSSELL)
v.
RUSSELL B. A. (EARL RUSSELL).
1934 July 21,
25,
26;
Nov. 15, 16, 22.
Nov. 15, 16, 22.
THE PRESIDENT (SIR BOYD MERRIMAN).
Divorce
— Deed of Separation
— Mutual Covenant against pleading alleging or giving evidence of Matrimonial Offences antecedent to Deed
— Estoppel inter Partes
— Adultery of Petitioner antecedent to Deed
— Discretion of Court to grant Decree to Petitioner
— Discretion Statement
— Prayer for exercise of discretion
— Disclosure to Court of adultery of Petitioner and circumstances of married life, calling for exercise of discretion in spite of estoppel
— Notice to Respondent of intention of Petitioner to file discretion statement
—
Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 178; s. 181, sub-s. 1; s. 198.