law: Indian Divorce Act, 1869 
  7. Court to act on principles of English Divorce
  
   Court 
  Subject to the provisions contained in this Act, the High Courts
  
  and District Courts shall, in all suits and proceedings hereunder, act and give
  
  relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the said courts, are,
  
  as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules on which the Court
  
  for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England for the time being acts and gives
  
  relief:
   13  [PROVIDED that nothing in this section shall
  
  deprive the said courts of jurisdiction in a case where the parties to a marriage
  
  professed the Christian religion at the time of the occurrence of the facts on
  
  which the claim to relief is founded.]