Abstract
The case of Le Mesurier v Le Mesurier at the end of the last century firmly established the principle that, in England, the jurisdiction of the court in divorce matters is based solely on the domicile of the parties at the date of institution of the proceedings (1, 7). It was strongly felt that there should be unity of domicile of husband and wife and thus, in effect, the domicile of the parties was that of the husband, the wife retaining, so long as the marriage subsisted, the domicile of her husband (3).
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