LawgistThe Divorce Act
50Service of petition
Every petition under this Act shall be served on the party to be affected thereby, either within or without 1[India], in such manner as the High Court by general or special order from time to time directs.
Provided that the court may dispense with such service altogether in case it seems necessary or expedient so to do.
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1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for the Provinces, which had been substituted by the A.O. 1948, for "British India".
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
