The innocent party retains all gifts made to him or her by the other and the guilty party loses them all.
Both parties are free to contract a new marriage.
Judicial Separation.—A separation from bed and board may be granted on the same grounds as entitle a party to an absolute divorce. Such a separation may also be judicially granted by consent of both spouses.
After a judicial separation has existed for five years either of the parties may petition the court to enlarge the decree of separation into a decree of absolute divorce.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Japanese Civil Code.
The East and the West, the Past and the Present, meet in the Japanese Civil Code, which became law in January, 1893.
It is the first codification of private law that Japan ever had in her long history. Up to that time the basis of Japanese laws and institutions was Chinese moral philosophy, ancestor worship and the old feudal system.