CAP. 179]
Divorce.
[r. 20 cont.] apply to the court by summons for an order to stay the proceedings by reason that he or she is willing to resume or to return to cohabitation with the petitioner.
Answer and Subsequent Pleadings.
21. A respondent who has entered an appearance may within fourteen days thereafter file in the Registry an answer to the petition in the appropriate form.
22. (1) Every answer which contains matter other than a simple denial of the facts stated in the petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit made by the respondent, verifying such other matter so far as the deponent has personal cognizance thereof and stating the deponent's belief in the truth of the rest of such other matter, and where the respondent is husband or wife of the petitioner shall further state, except where the claim in question is for restitution of conjugal rights, that there is not any collusion or connivance between the parties; and such affidavit shall be filed with the answer.
(2) Where the answer of a husband alleges adultery and prays relief, the alleged adulterer must be served personally with a sealed copy thereof bearing a notice to appear in like manner as a petition. Where in such a case no relief is claimed, the alleged adulterer shall not be made a co-respondent but a sealed copy of the answer shall be delivered to him endorsed with notice as under rule 17 that such person is entitled within eight days to apply for leave to intervene in the cause and upon such application he may be allowed to intervene subject to such directions as shall then be given.
23. Within fourteen days from the filing and delivery of the answer the petitioner may file a reply thereto, except where such answer is a simple denial, and no subsequent pleadings shall be delivered except by leave of a judge to be obtained upon summons.
24. A copy of every answer and subsequent pleading shall within four days after the same is filed be delivered to the opposite parties or their solicitors.
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CAP. 179]
Divorce.
[r. 20 cont.] apply to the court by summons for an order to stay the proceedings by reason that he or she is willing to resume or to return to cohabitation with the petitioner.
Answer and Subsequent Pleadings.
21. A respondent who has entered an appearance may within fourteen days thereafter file in the Registry an answer to the petition in the appropriate form.
22. (1) Every answer which contains matter other than a simple denial of the facts stated in the petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit made by the respondent, verify- ing such other matter so far as the depondent has personal cognizance thereof and stating the deponent's belief in the truth of the rest of such other matter, and where the res- pondent is husband or wife of the petitioner shall further state, except where the claim in question is for restitution of conjugal rights, that there is not any collusion or con- nivance between the parties; and such affidavit shall be filed with the answer.
(2) Where the answer of a husband alleges adultery and prays relief, the alleged adulterer must be served personally with a sealed copy thereof bearing a notice to appear in like manner as a petition. Where in such a case no relief is claimed, the alleged adulterer shall not be made a co-respondent but a sealed copy of the answer shall be delivered to him endorsed with notice as under rule 17 that such person is entitled within eight days to apply for leave to intervene in the cause and upon such application he may be allowed to intervene subject to such directions as shall then be given.
23. Within fourteen days from the filing and delivery of the answer the petitioner may file a reply thereto, except where such answer is a simple denial, and no subsequent pleadings shall be delivered except by leave of a judge to be obtained upon summons.
24. A copy of every answer and subsequent pleading shall within four days after the same is filed be delivered to the opposite parties or their solicitors.
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