grant the relief if one spouse is found to be impotent in relation to the other spouse.
12. In AIR 1966 All 150 this ... what has been said about impotency :--
"Impotency means incapacity for accomplishing the act of sexual intercourse and in this context, sexual intercourse means
with a particular individual, in which case, he may be called impotent in relation to that individual, regardless of his potency in general. The defect ... emerges from that discussion is that sterility is different from impotency and no law relating to marriage any where has justified the annulment of marriage
deemed to be impotent. In Laxmi Devi v. Babu Lal AIR 1973 Raj 83 this Court has held that impotency in matrimonial cases has been ... found to be impotent only in relation to the other spouse. This is called relative impotency or "quod hunc."
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anatomical impediment to the act. (4) A rare variety of relative impotence is constitutional frigidity. In this type, although the potency for coitus is otherwise ... only in case of absolute incapacity but also where the impotency is of a relative type, irrespective of whether it is generally
brother-in-law denied the suggestion made to him about the impotency of the husband qua the wife was not a ground for casting suspicion ... individual and in such a case he must be regarded as impotent in relation to the particular individual regardless of his potency in general
cited by Mr. Mehta viz., the Nagpur and the Lahore cases relate to impotency of the second type that is impotency arising from psychological inhibition ... that the other spouse is impotent. Therefore, medical evidence is to be looked for in respect of the impotency if it is available. Reading
normal male organ and able to erect it can still be impotent because of psychological or emotional reasons. The doctor stated that it is correct ... also admitted that in such cases he must be regarded as impotent in relation to that particular individual but he did not remember whether this
powers with respect to other persons. On principal, therefore, relative and not absolute Impotency would seem to be sufficient.....": Vandonberg v. Vandonberg ... regard to proof of impotency, the rules of evidence are not different in the case of impotency than elsewhere. Impotency that is physical unfit-ness
disclosed the same to any of his brothers, parents, relations, friends or relations of the appellant after March 6, 1992 till he filed the petition ... illicit relations, therefore she was unable to have sexual relations with any other male person, She had suffered some disease and became impotent. He further
court had come to the correct B conclusion that the husband was impotent at the time of the marriage. He was also correct ... impotency. By sexual intercourse is meant not an incipient, partial or imperfect, but a normal and complete coitus. Impotency differs from sterility which relates
