Convert's Marriage Dissolution Act, 1866
15. Procedure when female respondent refuses
to cohabit with petitioner Adjournment for a year. Interview
If the respondent be a female, and in answer
to the interrogatories of the Judge or Commissioners, as the case may be, shall
refuse to cohabit with the petitioner, the Judge, if upon consideration of the
respondent’s answers and of the facts which may have been proved by the petitioner
he shall be of opinion that the ground for such refusal is the petitioner’s
change of religion, shall make an order adjourning the case for a year, and
directing that, in the interim, the parties shall, at such place and time
as he shall deem convenient, have an interview of such length as the Judge
shall direct, and in the presence of such person or persons (who may be a
female or females) as the Judge shall select, with the view of ascertaining
whether or not the respondent freely and voluntarily persists in such refusal.