Indian Divorce Act, 1869
7. Court to act on principles of English Divorce
Court
Subject to the provisions contained in this Act, the High Courts
and District Courts shall, in all suits and proceedings hereunder, act and give
relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the said courts, are,
as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules on which the Court
for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England for the time being acts and gives
relief:
13 [PROVIDED that nothing in this section shall
deprive the said courts of jurisdiction in a case where the parties to a marriage
professed the Christian religion at the time of the occurrence of the facts on
which the claim to relief is founded.]