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page 49 note 1 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and Lagos, 1958 Revision, cap. 115.
page 50 note 1 In view of the provisions of s. 35, this is, of course, a legal impossibility. For, being legally incapable of doing so, no person can contract a customary marriage in these circumstances. Hence the words “contracts a marriage in accordance with native law or custom” must be construed as meaning “goes through a customary marriage ceremony” or “attempts to contract a customary marriage by going through the ceremonies …”
page 50 note 2 (1957), II E.R.L.R. I.
page 50 note 3 (1898), I N.L.R. 15.
page 51 note 1 Cf. Rayden on Divorce (7th ed.), p. 478.
page 51 note 2 See Latey on Divorce (14th ed.), p. 389. See also Spivack v. Spivack, [1930] 46 T.L.R. 243, and cases therein considered.
page 51 note 3 Supra.
page 52 note 1 In this case the children.
page 52 note 2 And has been so since before Basden wrote in the 1920's. See Basden, G. T., Among the Ibos of Nigeria (London, 1921. Seeley, Service and Co.) at p. 102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar