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49 Divorce Act - Suits by minors

Section 49: Suits by minors - Divorce Act 1869

Where the petitioner is a minor, he or she shall sue by his or her next friend to be approved by the Court; and no petition presented by a minor under this Act shall be filed until the next friend has undertaken in writing to be answerable for costs. Such undertaking 1 *** shall be filed in Court, and the next friend shall thereupon be liable in the same manner and to the same extent as if he were a plaintiff in an ordinary suit.

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1. The words "shall bear a stamp of eight annas and" rep. by Act 7 of 1870, s. 2 and the Schedule III.

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