Second Marriage.—A woman cannot conclude a new marriage until ten months after the dissolution of the one precedent.
Divorce.—A husband is entitled to a divorce because of the adultery of his wife.
A wife can only obtain a divorce because of her husband’s adultery, when the husband has brought his paramour or concubine into the home he has established for himself and wife.
Either party to a marriage is entitled to a divorce because of excessive ill-usage or grievous bodily injuries committed by one against the other.
The conviction of one of the parties for an infamous offence entitles the other to institute an action for a divorce.
Mutual Consent.—The mutual and persistent agreement of the parties to be divorced, expressed in the manner provided by law, and after certain formalities and proofs showing that a continuance of the marriage relation is unbearable, and that there exists by agreement of both parties peremptory reasons for a divorcement, is sufficient ground for a decree of divorce. At a meeting of the International Law Association, held at the Guildhall, London, on August 4th, 1910, Dr. Gaston de Leval, legal adviser to the British legation at Brussels, pleaded in favour of the Belgian system of divorce by mutual consent. Extremely few cases, he said, of such divorces took place, the proportion not being more than three per cent. on the average of Belgian divorces. He argued that such a divorce was at least as moral and difficult to obtain as any other kind of divorce, and in most of the cases the most difficult to obtain.
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Switzerland.