Matrimonial Causes Act 1867 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIM0

D. 1867.

No. 3.
An Act to consolidate and amend the Law reZating to Divorce and
Matrimonial Causes in South Australia.
[Assented to, 19th December, 1867.1
EEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Law Preamble.
W relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in South Aus- tralia-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province,

in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

PBELZMINARF.

said Province and its dependencies possess and exercise similar jdaaiction in caun

jurisdiction and authoritv in resnect of divorces a naensa et thoro, matrimonial.

suits of nullity of marriage, sui& for rcstitution of conjugal rights

or jactitation of marriage, and in all causes, suits, and matters

matrimonial, except in. respect of marriage licences, as imme-

diately

1. This Act may be cited, for all purposes, as the '' Matrimonial Bhort title.
Causes Act, 1867."
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of February, Ermencement of
1868.

relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in South Australia," is 1858.

3. An Act No. 22, of 1858, intituled K An Act to amend the law Repeal of No. 22 of

hereby repealed; except so far as may be necessary for supporting the validity of any proceedings taken or had thereunder before the

commencement of.

this Act.

4. The Supreme Court of South Australia shall within the Supreme court to

continue to exercise

6 31" VICTORIE, No. 3.

Matrimotzial Causes Act.-1 867.

P ~ E L I M ~ X A E Y.

diately before the time of the coming into operation of an Act

of the Imperial Parliament, made and passed in the twentieth and twcncy-first ycars of the reign o f Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-five, intitulcd " An Act to amend the law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England," was vested in or exercisable by any Ecclesiastical Court or person in England in respect of the like matters, together with the jurisdiction conferred by this Act; and the said jurisdiction, and all powers and authorities by this Act conferred, shall and may be exercised in like manner as the other powers, jurisdictions, and authorities, given to or vested in the Supreme Court; and all proceedings commenced under the said Act hereby repealed, shall be proceeded in, heard, and deter- mined, as nearly as circumstances will allow under the provisions of this Act.

Divirion of ~ c t.

5. This Act shall be divided into six parts, viz. --

PART	~.-Orders for Protection of Property of Deserted Wives:

PART

11.-Decrees

for Judicial Separation:

PART

111.-Decrees

for Dissolution of Marriage:

PAET

IV.-Remedies

against Adulterers:

PART

v.-Provisions

for Benefit of Children:

PART

v ~. P r o c c d u r e

in Matrimonial Causes:

PART I.

PART

I.-Orders

for Protection of Property of Deserted Wives:

aeaertea

her

husband may apply to

6. A wife, dcprted by her…

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