Indian Divorce Act, 1869
NO. 13-STATEMENT IN ANSWER TO NO. 12
In the (High) Court of ....................
B. against B.
A.B. of ................., the above-mentioned respondent, in answer
................ to the petition for alimony, pending the suit, of C.B., says-
1. In answer to the first paragraph of the said petition, I say
that I have for the last three years carried, on the business of ................, at
............... and that, from such business, I have derived a net annual income of Rs.
900, but less than Rs. 1,000.
2. In answer to the second paragraph of the said petition, I
say, that I am possessed of plate, furniture, linen and other chattels and
effects at my said house ................................... ... aforesaid, of
the value of Rs. 7, 000 but as I verify believe of no larger value. And I say
that a portion of the said plate, furniture and other chattels and effects of
value of Rs. 1,500, belonged to my said wife before our marriage, but the
remaining portions thereof I have since purchased with my own monies. And I say
that, save as therein before set forth, I am not possessed of the plate and
other effects as alleged in the said paragraph in the said petition, and that I
did not acquire the same as in the said petition also mentioned.
3. I admit that I am entitled under the Will of my father,
subject to the life- interest of my mother therein, to property of the value of
Rs. 5,000, that is to say, I shall be entitled under my said father’s Will,
upon the death of my mother, to a legacy of Rs. 7,000, out of which I shall,
have to pay to my father’s executors the sum of Rs. 2, 000 the amount of a debt
owing by me to his estate, and upon which debt I am now paying interest at the
rate of five per cent per annum.
4. And, in further answer to the said petition, I say that I
have no income whatever except that derived from my aforesaid business, that
such income, since my said wife left me, which she did on the ..........day of
............last, has been considerably diminished, and that such diminution is likely
to continue . And I say that out of my said income I have to pay the annual sum
of Rs. 100 for such interest as aforesaid to my late father’s executors, and
also to support myself and my two eldest children.
5. And, in further answer to the said petition, I say that, when
my wife left my dwelling house on the ................day of ................. last, she took with
her, and has ever since withheld and still withholds from me, plate, watches,
and other effects in the second paragraph of this my answer mentioned, of the
value of, as I verily believe, Rs. 800 at the least; and I also sathat, within
five days of her departure from my house as aforesaid, my said wife received
bills due to me from certain lodgers of mine, amounting in the aggregate to Rs
................. and that she has ever since withheld and still withholds from me the
same sum.
(Signed) A.B.