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The Merry Widow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1968

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* This note was with the press before Goodburn v. Thomas Cotton Ltd. was reported in full in [1968] 2 W.L.R. 229. There the Court of Appeal dealt with some of the objections raised in this Note (which was not apparent from the abstract in The Times). Nevertheless, I continue to maintain that remarriage, with its inherent unpredictable elements, is too delicate and uncertain a matter to be considered in pounds, shillings and pence.

1 [1967] 2 W.L.R. 759; [1967] 1 All E.R. 539.

2 Goodburn v. Thomas Cotton Ltd., The Times, December 2, 1967.

3 Ibid. 762–63; 542.

4 (1967) (II) 21 P.D. 339, 341.

5 It is true that, by adding a reference to the personal law, the Law nearly revokes the rule of equality in respect of matters of maintenance, but at least the principle is laid down in the text.

6 (1965) (II) 19 P.D. 240.

7 (1966) (I) 20 P.D. 589.

8 Morris v. Rigby (Road Haulage) (1966) 110 S.J. 834, C.A.