MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. In the English ecclesiastical courts there are five kinds of causes which are classed under this head. 1. Causes for a malicious jactitation. 2.
By the act of 1873 the court of chancery, the court of queen's (king's) bench, the court of common pleas, the court of exchequer, the high court of admiralty, the court of probate and the court of divorce and matrimonial causes were consolidated ...
In 1857, England wheeled out a Matrimonial Causes Act, giving divorce jurisdiction to the judiciary: the Courts; such a serious matter that at first, the law required that the application be heard and determined by three judges.
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Prior to 1857 such a proceeding took place only in the Ecclesiastical Court, but by express terms of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 it could be brought in the probate, divorce and admiralty division of the High Court.
 See also: Cause, Will, Order, Law, Were
  
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