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the application should not be granted, may decree judicial separation accordingly.
(3) A decree of judicial separation shall have the effect of a divorce a mensa et thoro under the existing law and such other legal effect as is hereinafter mentioned.
wife after
18-(1) The property of a wife who at the time of her Property of death is judicially separated from her husband shall, in case she dies intestate, go as it would have gone if her husband separation. had been then dead.
(2) Where, upon any such judicial separation, alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the wife and the same is not duly paid by the husband he shall be liable for necessaries supplied for her use.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the wife from joining, at any time during such separation, in the exercise of any joint power given to herself and her husband.
separation
19. (1) Any husband or wife, upon the application of Decree of whose wife or husband, as the case may be, a decree of judicial judicial separation has been pronounced, may, at any time obtained thereafter, present a petition to the court praying for a reversal of such decree on the ground that it was obtained in his or her absence and that there was reasonable excuse for the alleged desertion where desertion was the ground of such decree.
(2) The court may, on being satisfied of the truth of the allegations of such petition, reverse the decree accordingly.
Restitution of Conjugal Rights.
during the absence of husband or wife may be reversed.
restitution
20.-(1) When either the husband or the wife has Petition for without reasonable excuse withdrawn from the society of the of conjugal other, either wife or husband may apply by petition to the rights. court for restitution of conjugal rights.
(2) The court, on being satisfied of the truth of the statements made in such petition and that there is no legal ground why the application should not be granted, may decree restitution of conjugal rights accordingly.
petition.
21. Nothing shall be pleaded in answer to a petition for Answer to restitution of conjugal rights which would not be a ground for a suit for judicial separation.
22. (1) A decree of restitution of conjugal rights shall Periodical not be enforced by attachment.
(2) Where the application is by the wife the court may, at the time of making such decree or at any time afterwards, order that, in the event of such decree not being complied with within any time in that behalf limited by the Court, the respondent shall make to the petitioner such periodical payments as are just.
(3) The court may, if it thinks fit, order that the husband shall, to the satisfaction of the court, secure to the wife such periodical payments, and for that purpose may refer the matter to the Registrar or to some counsel and solicitor to settle and approve of a proper deed or instrument to be executed by all necessary parties.
payments in lieu of attachment.
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