A separation from bed and board is granted by the courts to either party to a marriage upon proof of adultery, cruelty, desertion or confirmed drunkenness; and to a wife for the failure of her husband to provide her proper support. Where a husband keeps a concubine in the same house with his wife the latter is justified in leaving him to live elsewhere, and in so doing the wife does not lose any of her marital rights. Quebec is the only Province in the Dominion of Canada where a child born out of wedlock is legitimatized by the subsequent marriage of the parents. BRITISH COLUMBIA.--The Divorce and Matrimonial Act of 1857, passed by the Imperial Parliament, is in full effect in this Province. The Supreme Court has jurisdiction to entertain a petition for divorce between persons domiciled in the Province and in respect of matrimonial offences alleged to have been committed therein. Absolute divorces are granted on the application of the husband on the ground of adultery; on the application of the wife on the ground of incestuous adultery, bigamy with adultery, rape, sodomy or bestiality, adultery coupled with such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a judicial separation, or adultery coupled with desertion, without reasonable excuse, for two years or upwards. Alimony may be ordered to be paid to the wife, by the decree dissolving the marriage or granting a separation, or it may be sued for separately if the wife has either obtained or is entitled to such a decree. After absolute divorce either party may marry again. The procedure in divorce matters is almost identical with that of England. A judicial separation may be obtained by either spouse because of: 1. Adultery. 2. Cruelty. 3. Desertion without cause for two years or more. NEW BRUNSWICK.--It is interesting to note that in this Province a married woman may acquire, hold and dispose of, by will or otherwise (except that husband's curtsey will not therefore be affected), any real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a _femme sole_, without the intervention of any trustee, and may enter into and render herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued in all respects as if she were a _femme sole_. The grounds for absolute divorce are: 1. Impotency. 2. Adultery. 3. Consanguinity. NOVA SCOTIA.--This old Province, originally called Acadia, has a judiciary which consists of a chief justice, an equity judge and five puisne judges, a supreme court having law and equity jurisdiction throughout the Province, a vice-admiralty court and a court of marriage and divorce. The rules as to consanguinity and affinity, the causes for divorce and judicial separation and the civil effects of marriage and divorce are the same as in England.