Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes was created by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in matters matrimonial to the new court so created.

The Judge Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes also presided over the Court of Probate, but the two Courts remained separate entities.

On 1 November 1875, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875, the Judge Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes was transferred, as its President, to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

Judges Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

References

Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, W.H. Allen & Co., 1894


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