New Brunswick.—It is interesting to note that in this Province a married woman may acquire, hold and dispose of, by will or otherwise (except that husband’s curtsey will not therefore be affected), any real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a femme sole, without the intervention of any trustee, and may enter into and render herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued in all respects as if she were a femme sole.
The grounds for absolute divorce are:
1. Impotency.
2. Adultery.
3. Consanguinity.
Nova Scotia.—This old Province, originally called Acadia, has a judiciary which consists of a chief justice, an equity judge and five puisne judges, a supreme court having law and equity jurisdiction throughout the Province, a vice-admiralty court and a court of marriage and divorce.
The rules as to consanguinity and affinity, the causes for divorce and judicial separation and the civil effects of marriage and divorce are the same as in England.
Alberta.—The Supreme Court Act (February 11, 1907) established the Supreme Court of the Province and provided that the court “shall have jurisdiction to grant alimony to any wife who would be entitled to alimony by the law of England, or to any wife who would be entitled by the law of England to a divorce and to alimony as incident thereto, or to any wife whose husband was separate from her without any sufficient cause and under circumstances which would entitle her by the laws of England to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights; and alimony, when granted, continue until further order of the court.”
Northwest Territories.—The term “Northwest Territories” originally referred to the region over which the Northwest Company exercised authority, the territorial limits of which were not clearly defined. The term is now used to designate the Canadian territories and districts of Yukon, Keewatin, Mackenzie, Ungava and Franklin.
As we have before observed, the law of marriage and divorce in the Northwest Territories is substantially the same as that of England.