The Weekly Law Reports
[1961] 3 WLR 1182
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
L.
v.
L.
1961 Oct. 20,
23.
Willmer and Davies L.JJ.
Husband and Wife
— Maintenance
— Divorce
— Successive applications
— Consent summons
— Wife's prayer for maintenance dismissed on lump sum payment by husband
— Agreement sanctioned by the court
— New Act enlarging time during which power of court to order maintenance exercisable
— Subsequent application by wife
— Jurisdiction of court
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Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act, 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2, c. 35), s. 1.
Practice
— Consent summons
— Effect
— Divorce
— Wife's prayer for maintenance dismissed on lump sum payment by husband
— Subsequent application for maintenance
— Whether sanction of court to agreement mere formality.