Affiliation: | * Emeritus Professor of Law, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT, Australia. Subject to minor modifications and additions, the article is based on a study which was researched and written in 1950 when the author, then at the University of Chicago Law School, collaborated for a period with the late Max Rheinstein in a wider project intended to cover not just the French and also other major systems of divorce. |