Converts' Marriage Dissolution Act : Male petitioner's cohabitation with one of several wives to bar

Converts' Marriage Dissolution Act,1866

Act No : 21

Section : Male petitioner's cohabitation with one of several wives to bar suit.

26. Male petitioner's cohabitation with one of several wives tobar suit.-If the petitioner, being a male, has at the time of theinstitution of the suit two or more wives, he shall make them all res-pondents ; and if at any stage of the suit it be proved that he is co-habiting with one of such wives as man and wife, or that any one ofsuch wives is ready and willing so to cohabit with him, the Courtshall pass a decree dismissing the suit and stating the ground of suchdismissal. The provisions as to revival contained in section 24 of this Actshall apply, mutatis mutandis, to a suit dismissed under this section.