Commonwealth Of Australia
: Japanese Fairy TalesThe Commonwealth of Australia, created by an act of the Imperial
Parliament in 1900 (63 and 64 Vic. cap. 12), is a federal State under the
supreme authority of the Crown of Great Britain.
This act of Parliament not only created a federal Commonwealth out of the
colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West
Australia and Tasmania, but it also granted to the new Commonwealth a
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States of America.
The constitution provides that "every law in force in a colony which has
become or becomes a State shall, unless it is by this constitution
exclusively vested in the Parliament of the Commonwealth or withdrawn from
the Parliament of the State, continue as at the establishment of the
Commonwealth or as at the admission or establishment of the State, as the
case may be."
It is also provided that "when a law of a State is inconsistent with a law
of the Commonwealth the latter shall prevail and the former shall, to the
extent of the inconsistency, be invalid."
All powers not delegated to the central or federal government are reserved
to the States.
However, in spite of its resemblance to other federal systems, the
principle of the responsibility of ministers to Parliament proclaims its
English parentage.
The judicial power is exercised under the constitution by a federal
supreme court, called the High Court of Justice, and other courts of
federal jurisdiction.
It is expressly provided in the Australian constitution that the
Parliament of the Commonwealth shall, subject to the constitution, have
power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the
Commonwealth with respect to "divorce and matrimonial causes, and in
relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of
infants."
It will be observed that Parliament is given no power under the
constitution to make laws prescribing the qualifications for marriage, the
impediments thereto, and regulations concerning the celebration. All such
power is reserved by the respective States.
Moreover, the grant of power to Parliament to make laws with regard to
"divorce and matrimonial causes" is not a power "by this constitution
exclusively vested in the Parliament of the Commonwealth or withdrawn from
the Parliament of the State."
Until the Parliament of the Commonwealth shall legislate on the subject,
by passing enactments concerning divorce and matrimonial causes
superseding the existing statutes of the several States, the laws of each
State will continue in operation.
In this chapter we shall consider, first, such laws and regulations
concerning marriage and divorce as are in effect throughout the entire
Commonwealth, and then, under separate headings, discuss the laws and
regulations of each State.
MARRIAGE.--The courts of Australia, following the English courts, only
recognize as a true marriage one which, in addition to being valid in
other respects, involves the essential requirement that it is a voluntary
union of one man and one woman for life to the exclusion of all others.
The law of the place where marriage is celebrated--that is, the lex loci
celebrationis--alone guides the court in ascertaining whether or not a
marriage is regular. All the formal preliminaries, such as the publication
of banns, or license, the consent of the parties entitled to give or
withhold consent and the solemn declaration of the contracting parties
before competent authority, according to the law of the place of
celebration, must be complied with.
LEGAL AGE.--The legal age for marriage throughout the Commonwealth of
Australia begins with fourteen years for a male and twelve years for a
female.
PARENTAL CONSENT.--In all of the States parental consent is required for
the marriage of males and females under twenty-one years of age.
BANNS OR LICENSE.--Unless a marriage license is procured banns must be
published in the parish in which the parties reside, and if they live in
different parishes the banns must be published in each parish.
Where a man has caused the banns to be published or has procured a license
under a false name or names, or has been married under a false name or
names, he will not be allowed to annul the marriage on that account. A
party cannot take advantage of his own fraud for the purpose of
invalidating a marriage.
CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY.--The law considers it against public policy
and morality, and contrary to the well-being of the parties, that persons
closely related by blood or marriage should intermarry. Marriages are
therefore prohibited between all ascendants and descendants, legitimate or
illegitimate.
A man is also prohibited from marrying his stepmother, wife's mother,
stepdaughter, daughter-in-law, son's daughter-in-law, daughter's
daughter-in-law, stepson's daughter, stepdaughter's daughter, niece by
blood, niece by affinity, or nephew's wife.
A woman is prohibited from marrying her uncle by blood or affinity,
husband's uncle, father-in-law, stepson, son-in-law, son's son-in-law,
daughter's son-in-law, stepson's son, stepdaughter's son, nephew by blood
or affinity, or niece's husband.
ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE.--A marriage may be annulled in any of the States of
the Commonwealth upon competent proof showing:
1. A prior and existing marriage of one of the parties.
2. Impotency or such physical malformation of one of the parties which
prevents him or her from consummating the marriage by sexual intercourse.
3. Relationship within the prohibited degrees.
4. That the marriage was procured by fraud, violence or mistake as to
identity.
5. That one of the parties was insane at the time the marriage was
concluded.
6. That the marriage was celebrated without the consent of the persons by
law entitled to give or withhold consent.
7. That the marriage was performed without legal license, or the
publication of banns, or solemnized before a person not having authority
to officiate.
A marriage will not be annulled on the last ground stated if it appears
that one of the parties acted in good faith and honestly believed that the
person who solemnized the marriage had the required authority.
JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--A decree of judicial separation, which is equivalent
to the old form of limited divorce (a mensa et thoro) may be obtained
in any of the States for the following causes:
1. Adultery of either husband or wife.
2. Desertion without legal cause for two years or more.
3. Cruelty or abusive treatment of one spouse by the other.
It is an absolute bar to a suit for judicial separation that the
petitioner has committed adultery since the marriage.
DIVORCE.--Absolute divorces completely dissolving the marriage bond are
granted by the courts of every State in Australia. As every State has its
separate statutes on the subject, which set forth the legal causes for
divorce, we shall consider such causes in our discussion of each State
separately.
DEFENCES.--In all the States condonation of a matrimonial offence, which
is a legal cause for divorce, is a good defence to the petition.
It is also a sufficient defence for the respondent to show that the
offence complained of was committed by the connivance or active consent of
the petitioner.
Connivance in adultery as a bar to divorce is founded on the doctrine
volenti non fit injuria, the consent consisting in acquiescence, active
or passive, in the adulterous intercourse. Passive acquiescence is a
sufficient bar, provided it was carried out with the intention that the
husband or wife would be guilty; but it must be something more than mere
inattention, indifference or dulness of apprehension. The presumption,
where the facts are equivocal, is in favour of absence of intention.
One spouse must not invite the other to commit adultery; but he or she may
permit the licentiousness of the other spouse to have its full scope
without being guilty of connivance.
It is not connivance to watch for the purpose of discovering a suspected
fact so as to make conviction certain.
COLLUSION.--An illegal agreement and co-operation between a petitioner and
a respondent in a divorce action to enable the petitioner to obtain a
judicial dissolution is a fraud upon the court. Upon such collusion
appearing the court, at its own instance, will dismiss the petition.
DESERTION.--The High Court of Justice of the Commonwealth has defined
desertion, which in several of the States is a legal cause for absolute
divorce, as follows: "Desertion involves an actual and wilful bringing to
an end of an existing state of cohabitation by one party without the
consent of the other. Such 'consent' must be shown by something more than
a mere mute acquiescence in an existing state of separation or
non-resistance to abandonment. What is necessary is some communication of
the intended acquiescence or non-resistance to the other by express words
or by conduct."
FORM OF DIVORCE DECREE.--A decree of divorce in any of the States is
granted nisi, or provisionally, and cannot be made absolute until three
months have elapsed after the decree nisi is entered.
A judicial separation may be granted, even if the suit is for an absolute
divorce, if the court deems such a decree better meets the law and facts
of the case.
VICTORIA.--The Marriage Act of 1890 (54 Victoria, No. 1166), entitled "An
act to consolidate the laws relating to marriage and to the custody of
children and to deserted wives and children and to divorce and matrimonial
causes," is practically a short code on the subject of marriage and
divorce.
CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE.--The following persons, and none other, may
celebrate marriages:
1. A minister of religion ordinarily officiating as such, whose name,
designation and usual place of residence, together with the church, chapel
or other place of worship in which he officiates, is at the time of the
celebration of the marriage duly registered according to law in the office
of the Registrar-General.
2. A minister of religion being the recognized head of a religious
denomination.
3. A minister of religion holding a registered certificate that he is a
duly authorized minister, priest or deacon from the head of the religious
denomination to which he belongs, or, if there be no such religious head,
from two or more officiating ministers of places of worship duly
registered according to law.
4. The Registrar-General or other officer appointed for that purpose.
JEWS AND QUAKERS.--The law permits Jews and Quakers to be married by such
persons and in such manner as is considered regular and lawful according
to their respective beliefs and usages.
FORMALITIES.--A marriage must be preceded by a license or the publication
of banns.
A marriage celebration requires the attendance of two witnesses of full
age.
DIVORCE.--A domicile of two years or more is a condition precedent to
bringing a suit for divorce.
The following are legal grounds for a divorce or dissolution of the
marriage bond:
1. Adultery on part of the wife.
2. Adultery on part of the husband if committed in the conjugal residence
or if it is coupled with circumstances or conduct of aggravation or of a
repeated act of adultery.
3. Desertion without just cause continued for three years or more.
4. The habitual drunkenness of a husband for three years, if the husband
has habitually left his wife without support, or has habitually been
guilty of cruelty to her.
5. Habitual drunkenness of a wife for three years, if the wife has
habitually neglected her domestic duties, or rendered herself unfit to
discharge them.
6. Imprisonment of either spouse for not less than three years, and being
still in prison under a commuted sentence for a capital crime, or under
sentence to penal servitude for seven years or more.
7. If the husband has within five years undergone frequent convictions for
crime and has been sentenced in the aggregate to imprisonment for three
years or more, leaving his wife habitually without means of support.
8. That within a year previously the respondent has been convicted of
having attempted to murder the petitioner, or of having assaulted him or
her with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, or that repeatedly during
that period the respondent has assaulted and cruelly beaten the
petitioner.
FORM OF DECREE.--Divorce decrees are entered, in the first instance,
nisi, or provisionally, and cannot be made absolute until after the
expiration of three months following the decree nisi.
IN FORMA PAUPERIS.--Special provision is made enabling poor persons to
prosecute suits for divorce by an interlocutory order in forma pauperis,
which relieves the person in whose favour it is granted from certain
charges and expenses, but does not furnish him or her with the free
services of a solicitor or barrister.
RECENT DECISIONS.--An important divorce decision holds that visits to
brothels by a petitioner who seeks a divorce on the ground of his wife's
adultery constitute misconduct conducing to the adultery of the wife and
bars the petitioner from a decree, without entering into the question of
whether or not adultery was committed by the petitioner in the course of
such visits.
However, the fact that a husband has conduced to an act of adultery by his
wife is not a bar to him obtaining a divorce based on subsequent acts of
adultery.
NEW SOUTH WALES.--The requirements as to age, consent of parents, or of
persons standing in loco parentis are the same in this State as
throughout the rest of the Commonwealth and have been set forth in the
first part of this chapter.
No marriage can be celebrated except by a minister of religion ordinarily
officiating as such, whose name, designation and usual residence have been
and continue registered in the office of the Registrar-General for
Marriages in Sydney or by a district registrar.
Parental consent is not required of persons who have previously been
lawfully married and whose former marriage has been dissolved by death or
divorce.
A marriage must be attended by two adult witnesses.
By the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1899 jurisdiction in respect of divorces
a mensa et thoro (judicial separations), suits for nullity of marriage,
suits for dissolution of marriage (absolute divorce), suits for
restitution of conjugal rights, suits for jactitation of marriage, and all
causes, suits and matters matrimonial are vested in the Supreme Court of
the State.
CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE.--A husband who has been domiciled for three
years or more in the State may petition for a dissolution of the marriage
on the following grounds:
A. That the wife has committed adultery.
B. That the wife has, without just cause or excuse, wilfully deserted the
petitioner and without any such cause or excuse left him so deserted for
three years or more.
C. That the wife has, during three years and upwards, been an habitual
drunkard and habitually neglected her domestic duties or rendered herself
unfit to discharge them.
D. That within one year the wife has been imprisoned for a period of not
less than three years and is still in prison under a commuted sentence for
a capital crime, or under sentence to penal servitude for seven years or
more.
E. That within one year the wife has been convicted of having attempted to
murder her husband, or having assaulted him with intent to inflict
grievous bodily harm.
F. That during one year previously the wife has assaulted and cruelly
beaten her husband.
A wife may obtain an absolute divorce from her husband by proving:
A. That her husband has committed incestuous adultery.
B. That the husband has committed bigamy with adultery.
C. That the husband has committed rape, sodomy or bestiality.
D. That the husband has committed adultery coupled with such cruelty as
without adultery would have entitled the wife to a divorce a mensa et
thoro (divorce from bed and board) under the laws of England as existing
before the enactment of the Imperial Act 20 and 21, Vict. c. 85.
E. Adultery of the husband coupled with desertion without reasonable
excuse for two years or upwards.
JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--A judicial separation may be granted on the ground
of adultery, cruelty or desertion without legal cause or excuse continued
for two years and upwards.
QUEENSLAND.--In this State marriage may be celebrated by any regular
officiating minister of religion, or by any district registrar, or by
specially authorized justices of the peace.
CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE.--A husband is entitled to an absolute divorce
if his wife has committed adultery, but a wife is not so entitled unless
her husband has committed incestuous adultery, bigamy, rape, sodomy,
bestiality, adultery coupled with cruelty, or adultery coupled with
desertion without reasonable excuse for two years or more.
Incestuous adultery is adultery with a woman within the prohibited
degrees.
JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--A limited divorce or judicial separation can be
obtained by either spouse on the following grounds:
1. Adultery.
2. Cruelty.
3. Desertion without legal cause for two years.
LEGITIMACY.--Illegitimate children are legitimatized by the subsequent
marriage of their parents.
WEST AUSTRALIA.--The Marriage Act of 1894 is virtually an acceptance by
this State, so far as practicable, of the English Divorce Act of 1857.
The causes for absolute divorce or for a judicial separation are the same
as those given above for the State of Queensland.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA.--In these two States, by legislative
enactments, the causes for absolute divorce and judicial separation are
the same as those given on opposite page for Queensland, West Australia
and South Australia.
The exercise of appellate jurisdiction by the High Court of Justice of the
Commonwealth in matrimonial causes has the beneficial effect of making the
several States more and more uniform in their local legislation and
judicial interpretation.
The federal Parliament has express authority under the constitution to
enact a federal code of marriage and divorce which will operate throughout
the entire Commonwealth, and such a code in one form or another is
inevitable.
The Commonwealth of Australia is not yet a dozen years old, but the need
of superseding six separate systems of law respecting marriage and divorce
by a national law on the subject is already apparent and under
constructive discussion.
Of all the federative dependencies of the British Crown Australia is
perhaps the most homogenous in race, religion and traditions, and it will
probably be the first to adopt a federal law of marriage and divorce.
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Far up on the dark mountainside, in the driving snow, Nimble waited in front of the cave where Cuffy Bear had vanished. And all the time Nimble was growing more uneasy. He feared that Cuffy Bear might be in some sort of trouble. Nimble looked a... Cunning Ileane
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BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY THE ENCHANTED PALACE Once upon a time, through that Destiny that overrules the gods, Love himself gave up his immortal heart to a mortal maiden. And thus it came to pass:-- There was a certain king who had three ... Custom-rhymes
It is greatly to be feared that, notwithstanding the efforts made within the last few years by individuals who have desired to see the resuscitation of the merry sports and customs of old England, the spirit which formerly characterised them is no... Dabbling In The Dew
The following pretty ballad appears to be a humorous imitation of an Elizabethan eclogue-song. Its style guarantees its antiquity: Oh, where are you going, My pretty maiden fair, With your red rosy cheeks, And your co... Daffy-down-dilly
Daffy-down-dilly is new come to town, With a petticoat green, and a bright yellow gown, And her white blossoms are peeping around. ... Dame Cricket's Story
"Come, children, it is time to get up," said Dame Cricket to her ten little crickets. "Hurry, now, and take your bath and put on your little black caps and your little brown suits. The sun has almost gone down over the hill and the birds will... Dame Grumble And Her Curious Apple Tree
I Long, long ago, in a country quite close to the top of the earth, where the North Wind blew fiercely each spring, there lived a woman called Dame Grumble. Now Dame Grumble had an Apple Tree which she loved exceedingly, although it vexed her b... Dame Martha's Step-daughter Or The Grandmother Of The Gnomes
Dame Martha lived at the foot of a high mountain. Her cottage was large enough to give shelter only to herself and two young girls, one of them her own child and the other the child of Dame Martha's late husband, who, about six months before this ... Dancing Looby
Now we dance looby, looby, looby, Now we dance looby, looby, light. Shake your right hand a little And turn you round about. Now we dance looby, looby, looby, Shake your right hand a little, Shake your ... Daphne
BY OVID (ADAPTED) In ancient times, when Apollo, the god of the shining sun, roamed the earth, he met Cupid, who with bended bow and drawn string was seeking human beings to wound with the arrows of love. "Silly boy," said Apollo, "what dost th... Daphne
Daphne was the daughter of the River Peneus. She was a beautiful child and her father loved her more than anything else in the world. Her home was in a cave which he had cut for her in a great white cliff. The walls of the cave were of marb... Dapplegrim
THERE was once upon a time a couple of rich folks who had twelve sons, and when the youngest was grown up he would not stay at home any longer, but would go out into the world and seek his fortune. His father and mother said that they thought he was... David Livingstone
At one time many people believed that the middle of Africa was a sandy desert, where nothing could live but camels and ostriches. But they were mistaken. The great traveller, David Livingstone, journeyed into this unknown country, and he found tha... Day-dreaming
Now there was once a man at Bagdad who had seven sons, and when he died he left to each of them one hundred dirhems; and his fifth son, called Alnaschar the Babbler, invested all this money in some glassware, and, putting it in a big tray, from wh... Days Of Birth
Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living... Deep-sea Violets
In a modest hut upon the sea-shore, half-hidden from sight by an enormous bank of drifted sand, lived a fisherman and his wife, with their twin-children, John and Emma. Theirs was a hard life, and full of privations; but the husband and wife lo...