Show y 1 UTAH UTAI Ip S t T ja L N 5 0 tl 0 ft r 0 IR i e cout court III in F ranting granting divorces is tto con consider al ai application to divorce it a woman fa from rom her husband huband 7 or a mail fron his wite wife rf if sail sled that the plaintiff plain tin islai to be 4 lent ot 01 the territory R S 1 p 12 LJ no lime ime is id specked spec ined in the act within which th he e i defendant is allowed to resist the suit the law faw satisfies itself in saying that timely shall be given this timely warning is a qu question with the probate judge ibe he dependant dlen delen dant may not be in the territory and yettee yet the judye judge 0 may set the same time tiffie for fbi his laiq or her appearance pe arance as though 0 the one or tile the other resided in the c county n and fo for r which the court convenes the intent of this his lauris law is stamped upon its it face it wag the purpose of granting ready di divorces to such men who deserted their wives and nd such mich wom women 1 eff who deserted their husbands for tile the purpose of 0 joining th marmon cht churche Chur relf Chr lt it is not ia tended to and does no tapply to those already in the ahl church u ach tor instance both husband and wife belonging to the churell church and peeking a divore divorce e the writer venturo ventures to assert frocil ev evidence evid idenie enco in ill hist possession aind the record bany pro I 1 b bala ate court in the y beading g evidence evi deuce rara divorce being grunted will upon sostain tha the aasc assertion r tion th that at but one of 0 the parties avras a or of tile the church chut ell the effect or of I 1 his law can readily be understood from t tile following illustration which simply represents in sub substance tance it a fact within thu the writer s own observation A mormon I 1 missionary persuades p alomari av omari td adopt his baith she de deperte erts her husban dand and conics to utah immediately after her arrival she applies ff for a 1 I divorced divorce the timely notice 1 is givon given by the court ind and before the woman is scarcely aware or of the fact she is free and shortly arter after is the alist or fifth fifths or fifteenth wife of ef sania member of the church the fill husband should lie he learn her and have the tein temerity erity to follow her finds that a judge under sanction of utah law ha divore divorced cd his gift i without his 1 i knowledge but the timely notice has b been een t given certainly the law has been complied with mid it is of th thy tely did not travel several thon I 1 month or borsuch such a matt matter or to tile the husban this law concerning divo divorces 1 sugar P coati cots the whole arrana r ment by za saying san ia tile the last section that if i f lis is the duty of r tafe alte probate judge to punish by guy or imprisonment or both it at diser discretion to 11 any person or persons who shall sti stir 1 r up unwarrantable strife between husband and wife or seek to ta bring about a separation between them tile the writer agrees with in an excellent authority concerning this sod section flon an and d affirms with that authority that in this section n the judges have powers tort too f A A question tion of so much importance should allow the parly a tuai trial by jury in other r ferlito ries district cou courts rig have jurisdiction concerning divorces and probate courts are confined confino d to tile legitimate of 0 courts courtat but ike lie territorial ili in grunting granting to these courts r original n r jurisdiction ion both in id civil cibir and ei criminal cass cag s adds tile the proviso 11 when not otherwise oth erwis pro vidad by layra la the question naturally arises is is it pot time lime to provide by law for 6 ertain certain rights which public interests interest finlly d demand eina tid such ia the civil dl di vorce law of utah the ecclesiastic divine lw lias as heen been noticed notice din in paragraph in a fprmer former firt article icle further comment upon ethar empris A is anh unnecessary e |