Matrimonial Causes Act
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The Matrimonial Causes Act is a stock short title
used for legislation in the United Kingdom
relating to marriage law.
Short title
The short title is the formal name by which a piece of primary legislation may by law be cited in the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions , as well as the United States. It contrasts with the long title which, while usually being more fully descriptive of the...
used for legislation in the United Kingdom
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relating to marriage law.
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- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857Matrimonial Causes Act 1857The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than...
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1858
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1859
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1860
- extended by the Perpetuation of Matrimonial Causes Act, 1860 Act 1862
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1864
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1866
- The Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1870
- The Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1871
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1873
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1878
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1884
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1907Matrimonial Causes Act 1907The Matrimonial Causes Act 1907 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated previous legislation relating to maintenance payments to separated and divorced women. It was designed in response to one cause of poverty amongst mothers and their children, marriage break-up....
- The Matrimonial Causes (Dominions Troops) Act 1919
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937Matrimonial Causes Act 1937The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 is a law on divorce in the United Kingdom.Apart from the Roman Catholic Church, Church of England and its associated Mothers Union, there was broad support for divorce law liberalisation, as this legislation had not been significantly amended since the passage of the...
- The Matrimonial Causes Act (Northern Ireland) 1939
- The Matrimonial Causes (War Marriages) Act 1944
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1950
- The Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1963
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1965
- The Matrimonial Causes (Reports) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1967
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973