C v C: 1942

(New Zealand) The husband told the wife he was a famous Australian featherweight boxer and quite well off. The husband was in fact a New Zealander and neither a boxer nor rich. The wife sought annullment of the marriage.
Held: The petitionfailed. Callan J said that it was a ‘case of real consent induced by fraud, and not a case of no consent or absence of consent.’ The woman had consented to marrying the man she in fact married.
Callan J
[1942] NZLR 356
England and Wales

Updated: 22 July 2021; Ref: scu.540361