adultery' the words "adultery coupled with' occurring before 'such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a divorce ... incestuous adultery,
or of bigamy with adultery,
or of marriage with another woman with adultery,
or of rape, sodomy or bestiality,
or of adultery coupled
adultery' the words 'adultery coupled with' occurring before 'such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a divorce ... inconstuous adultery, or of bigamy with adultery,
or of marriage with another woman with adultery.
or of rape, sodomy or bestiality.
or of adultery coupled
guilty of incestuous adultery or bigamy with adultery or marriage with another woman, with adultery or adultery coupled with cruelly or, adultery coupled with desertion ... Indian Divorce Act, 1869 . The grounds of divorce under the 1857 Act were mechanically incorporated within the Indian Divorce Act . The Indian Divorce
Section 10 of the Indian Divorce Act requiring a woman wanting to divorce her husband to prove not merely adultery as the husband wanting ... incestuous adultery, or of bigamy with adultery, or of marriage with another woman with adultery,
or of rape, sodomy or bestiality, or of adultery coupled
application to a proceeding for divorce under Section 10 of the Indian Divorce Act The definition of adultery in Section 497 of the Indian Penal ... husband was guilty of adultery as a matrimonial offence?
10. Adultery is not defined in the Indian Divorce Act . But in interpreting a term
Kerala) to urge that if a woman is living in adultery after divorce she cannot be held disentitled to maintenance under Section ... Court was filed by the divorced wife. It was observed that a divorced wife can never live in adultery. In this regard a reference
GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B.
CITATION:
1958 AIR 441 1958 SCR 1410
ACT:
Divorce-Adultery-Standard of Proof-Principle-Direct evidence
if imperative-Finding of fact when ... innocence. In any event on a petition for
divorce some strict proof is required of adultery as is
required in a criminal case before
petition is adultery the petitioner has
not in any manner condoned the adultery ... the Court shall pronounce a decree of divorce, but if
the Court ... adultery cases --(one more indicium of the standard of proof in adultery cases being kept open) --1948 P. 179 gives no authority to the Divorce
Indian Divorce Act, 1869 and The Special Marriage Act, 1954 which require
that in a claim for divorce on the ground of adultery ... that in case of a petition
filed on the ground of adultery where adultery is alleged with
more than one person, the petitioner is bound
divorce by wife under Section 10 of the Indian Divorce Act. As already pointed out from the section itself it has got to be adultery ... cited. It was there decided that a suit for divorce for adultery is a civil and not a criminal matter and that the analogies
