Waters v Waters

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Intention to injure — Boorishness, uncleanliness and taciturnity — Intention of being cruel or of driving spouse away — Presumption of intention.

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Constructive desertion — Inference from conduct — Boorishness.

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Separation, after — “Subsistence” of marriage — Assaults on wife after her withdrawal from cohabitation — “Causes of complaint arising during the subsistence of the marriage” — Whether wife entitled to matrimonial order — Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act, 1960, s 1 (1)

[1968] P 401; [1968] 2 WLR 987