The Divorce Act, 1869

Section 5. That no collusion or connivance exists between your petitioner and the said A.B ., with respect to the subject of the present suit

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

5. That no collusion or connivance exists between your petitioner and the said A.B ., with respect to the subject of the present suit. Your petitioner, therefore, prays that this (Hon'ble) Court will decree a judicial separation to your petitioner from her said husband by reason of his aforesaid adultery. (Signed ) C.B . (b) Form of Verification : See No . 1 ________ No . 6.— Statement in answer to No . 5 In the (High) Court of B. against B. The day of The respondent, A.B. by W.Y., his attorney [or vakil] saith, — 5. And, in further answer to the said petition, I say that, when my wife left, my dwelling-house on the day of last, she took with her, and has ever since withheld and still withholds from me, plate, watches and other effects in the second paragraph of this my answer mentioned, of the value of, as I verily believe, Rs. 800 at the least; and I also say "that, within five days of her departure from my house as aforesaid, my said wife received bills due to me from certain lodgers of mine, amounting in the aggregate to Rs. and that she has ever since withheld and still withholds from me the same sum. effects in the second paragraph of this my answer mentioned, of the value of, as I verily believe, my said wife received bills due to me from certain lodgers of mine, amounting in the aggregate to (Signed) A.B . _______ No. 14.—UNDERTAKING by minor's next friend to be answerable for respondent's costs ( See section 49) In the (High) Court of I, the undersigned A.B ., of being the next friend of C.D. who is a minor, and who is desirous of filing a petition in this Court, under the Indian Divorce Act, against D.D. of , hereby undertake to be responsible for the costs of the said D.D . in such suit, and that, if the said C.D . fail to pay to the said D.D. when and in such manner as the court shall order all such costs of such suit as the court shall direct him [or her] to pay to the said D.D ., will forthwith pay the same to the proper officer of this court. Dated this. day of 186 . (Signed) A.B. _______ 5. The word "United" rep. by Act 12 of 1873, s. 1 and the Schedule. 6. The words "and Ireland" rep. by s. 1, ibid . and the Schedule. decree or order been discontinued, be protected and indemnified as if, at the time of such payment, transfer or other act, such decree or order were valid and still subsisting without variation, and the separation had not ceased or been discontinued, unless, at the time of the payment, transfer or other act, such persons had notice of the reversal, discharge or variation of the decree or order or of the cessation or discontinuance of the separation. 5. That there is no collusion or connivance between her and the said C.D. with respect to the subject of this suit. Your petitioner therefore prays that this (Hon'ble) Court will declare that the said marriage is null and void. (Signed) A.B . Form of Verification : See No . 1 __________ No. 5.—PETITION by wife for judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery ( See section 22) In the (High) Court of To the Hon'ble Mr. Justice [ or To the Judge of ]. The day of , 186. The petition of C.B ., of the wife of A.B . SHEWETH, 1. That on the day of , one thousand eight hundred and sixty your petitioner, then C.D., was lawfully married to A.B., at the Church of , in the

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