LawgistThe Divorce Act
49Suits by minors
Where the petitioner is a minor, he or she shall sue by his or her next friend to be approved by the Court; and no petition presented by a minor under this Act shall be filed until the next friend has undertaken in writing to be answerable for costs. Such undertaking 1 *** shall be filed in Court, and the next friend shall thereupon be liable in the same manner and to the same extent as if he were a plaintiff in an ordinary suit.
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1. The words “shall bear a stamp of eight annas and” rep. by Act 7 of 1870, s. 2 and the Schedule III.
XII.--PROCEDURE
- 45 Code of Civil Procedure to apply
- 46 Forms of petitions and statements
- 47 Petition to state absence of collusion
- 48 Suits on behalf of lunatics
- 49 Suits by minors
- 50 Service of petition
- 51 Mode of taking evidence
- 52 Competence of husband and wife to give evidence as to cruelty or desertion
- 53 Power to close doors
- 54 Power to adjourn
- 55 Enforcement of, and appeals from, orders and decrees
- 56 Appeal to the Supreme Court
