JACTITATION SUIT

JACTITATION

A suit for #jactitation of marriage is not by any means a novel description of suit: it was a suit in which relief was given in England in the Ecclesiastical Courts, and when the jurisdiction of those Courts was transferred to the Divorce Court by the Act of 1857, the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in suits for jactitation of marriage was transferred to the Divorce Court. 

In England it was not only a well-known suit within the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts, but it was considered proper that that jurisdiction should be continued by the Divorce Court in England, and there can be no doubt that unless a man is entitled by means of the Civil Courts to put to silence a woman who falsely claims to be his wife, the man and others may suffer considerable hardship, and his heirs may be harassed by false claims after his death.