The Archbishop's Opposition Divorce Law cussed in the Reform was dis-House of Lords recently.
Lord Bue ter moved the second reading of the Matrimonial Causes Bill, which is based on the recommendations contained in the majority report of the Royal Commission on Divorce.
"The Royal Commission, Lord Buckmaster explained, took the view that grounds for divorce should be adultery, desertion for three years, crucify, habitual—insanity after five years, habitual drunkenness ionnd to be incurable after three years' separation, and imprisonment under a commuted death sentence. The question of desertion was one of the most pressing. Desertion practically never took place unless a man meant to live with another woman, though evidence was not always easily procurable. Many a man who had shown himself to be a gallant soldier on the field of battle had been found to betray and desert a woman. Some modification had taken place in the position of poor people, but it still remained the case that trials must take place in London. The Bill made provision for Igcal sittings of the High Court.
Lord Brave, a Roman Catholic Peer, moved the rejection of the Bill, which he said was designed to facilitate divorce throughout the country.
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