Goodness, I'd just assumed he'd confessed to the murder! I mean, when you've got a murder on the premises, isn't that what you confess to? Anything else would be... well, untidy. Or something.
Well, a confession of murder might well be grounds for divorce, but discovering your spouse isn't, in and of itself, grounds for annullment, because annullment is a ruling that the marriage was never valid, not merely that it's been dissolved. But as nineveh_uk points out, the non-consummation which might result from such a confession would be, I was just forgetting the most obvious grounds for an annullment!
I don’t think discovering Peter had murdered Mr Noakes would in itself be grounds for Harriet to divorce him at the time, and they haven’t been married long enough for him to commit adultery. Post-1937 maybe Harriet could divorce Peter for desertion, but as the same law changed things so you couldn’t get divorced in the first three years of marriage, she’d still have to wait.
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Date: 2012-10-29 04:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-10-29 01:03 pm (UTC)I don’t think discovering Peter had murdered Mr Noakes would in itself be grounds for Harriet to divorce him at the time, and they haven’t been married long enough for him to commit adultery. Post-1937 maybe Harriet could divorce Peter for desertion, but as the same law changed things so you couldn’t get divorced in the first three years of marriage, she’d still have to wait.
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