INSANITY.--Insanity is neither a cause nor a bar to divorce. If an insane wife commits adultery, or if an insane husband commits adultery coupled with the other offences which make out a cause of action against him, the innocent party is entitled to a decree of divorce. So an insane party may be a petitioner for divorce, but can only appear by his or her committee in lunacy. HUSBAND'S NAME.--A divorced wife is entitled to continue to use her former husband's surname. ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE.--An action for the annulment of marriage has for its purpose the setting aside of the marriage contract on the theory that proper consent to the marriage has never been given by both the parties. The following are the causes or grounds for such annulment: 1. A prior and existing marriage of one of the parties; 2. Impotency, or such physical malformation of one of the parties which prevents him or her from consummating the marriage by sexual intercourse; 3. Relationship within the prohibited degrees; 4. Marriage procured by fraud, violence or mistake; 5. Insanity of one of the parties at the time of the marriage; 6. Marriage performed without legal license, or without the required publication of banns. JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--By the Matrimonial Causes Act a decree of judicial separation, which is equivalent in effect to a divorce _a mensa et thoro_ under the old law, may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of adultery, or cruelty, or desertion without legal cause for two years and upwards. The defences which may be set up by the respondent vary according to the cause relied upon by the petitioner, but there is one absolute bar in suits for judicial separations brought on any ground, and that is that the petitioner has committed adultery since the date of the marriage. SEPARATION ORDERS.--Besides the ordinary suit to obtain a judicial separation which must be prosecuted in the High Court a wife can obtain speedy and inexpensive relief by making an application to a police magistrate, or a board of magistrates, for a separation order. This remedy is limited to married women whose husbands are domiciled in England or Wales. Such separation orders are intended to furnish summary relief to the wives of workingmen, and the amount awarded for the wife's support to be paid by her husband cannot exceed two pounds a week, no matter what the husband's income may be. The following are the causes for which, upon application, a magistrate or board of magistrates is authorized to grant a separation order: 1. Habitual drunkenness of the husband, which renders him at times dangerous to himself or others, or incapable of managing himself or his affairs; 2. When the husband has been convicted of an aggravated assault upon his wife, or has been convicted by an Assize or Quarter Sessions Court of an assault and has been sentenced to a fine of more than five pounds or to imprisonment for more than two months;