1
797
No. 22.
REPLY TO FORM No. 21.
(General Heading.)
The petitioner C. B. in person (or by her solicitor) says:-
1. That she denies that she condoned the said adultery of the respondent with E. F., as in the third paragraph of the statement in answer alleged.
2. That even if she had condoned the said adultery, the same has been revived by the subsequent adultery with R. S. (or G. H. as the case may be) as set forth in the fifth paragraph of the petition.
(Signed) C. B.
No. 23.
PETITION BY WIFE FOR JUDICIAL SEPARATION ON GROUND OF HUSBAND'S CRUELTY..
(General Heading.)
The petition of C. B. (wife of A. B.) residing at
SIEWETH:
1. (As in paragraph 1 of Form No. 20.)
2. That on the
day of
your petitioner,
then C. D. spinster (or widow), was lawfully married to A. B. at
The said marriage was a Christian marriage (or the civil equivalent of a Christian marriage).
3. That from her said marriage your petitioner lived and cohabited with her said husband at
until the day of from her said husband as hereinafter more particularly mentioned, when your petitioner separated and that your petitioner and her said husband have had no issue of their said marriage.
4. That from and shortly after your petitioner's said marriage the said A. B. habitually conducted himself towards your petitioner with great harshness and cruelty, frequently abusing her in the coarsest and most insulting language, and beating her with his fists, with a cane, or with some other weapon..
5. That on an evening in or about the month of said A B. in the highway and opposite to the house in which your the petitioner and the said A. B. were then residing at aforesaid, endeavoured to knock your petitioner down, and prevented from so doing only by the interference of F. D.. petitioner's brother.
was
vour
6. That subsequently on the same evening the said A. B. in his said house at
aforesaid, struck your petitioner
with his clenched fist a violet blow on her face.
7. That on one Saturday night in the month of
the said A. B. in
without provocation, threw
a knife at your petitioner, thereby inflicting a servere wound on her right hand.
day of
8. That on the afternoon of the your petitioner, by reason of the great and continued cruelty practised towards her by her said husband, with assistance withdrew from the house of her said husband to the house of her father at
day of
; that from and after the said
her said husband, and hath never returned to his house or to your petitioner hath lived separate and apart from cohabitation with him.