Excerpt from Thirty-Five Years in the Divorce Court
Before the Act of 1857, divorce could only be obtained by costly proceedings before the Houses of Parliament, imposing great hardship on the mass of the people, and there can be little doubt that this hardship was deeply felt. Repeated proposals were made to Parliament with a view to reform of the law, and more than one Commission reported on the subject. It is said that the final impetus was given by an address to a prisoner by Mr Justice Maule. The prisoner"s wife had deserted him with her paramour, and he married again during her lifetime.
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