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Nigeria: The Matrimonial Causes Decree, 19701
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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- Journal of African Law , Volume 16 , Issue 1: New Laws in Africa , Spring/Printemps 1972 , pp. 40 - 58
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1972
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2 By virtue of s.4 of the Regional [State] Courts (Federal Jurisdiction) Act (cap. 177) and s. 16 of the High Court of Lagos Act (cap.80), which provided that the jurisdiction of the High Courts in relation to annulment and dissolution of marriages and other matrimonial causes shall “be exercised by the Court in conformity with the law and practice for the time being in force in England”.
3 See ss.1(1) and 8.
4 See s.115(1).
page 41 note 1 See Kasunmu & Salacuse, Nigerian Family Law, 13–14 and 65–66, who express the view that the age is 16, disagreeing with the other view that it is the common law age of 14 for boys, and 12 for girls.
page 41 note 2 C.45.
page 42 note 1 C.33.
page 42 note 2 Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Act, 1971 (c.53), adopting the Hague Convention of 1970.