The law of the land permits absolute divorce for the following causes: 1. By mutual consent of the parties. The parties on such an application appear before a judge with a written inventory of their goods, showing the division agreed upon, and with certificates of their birth and marriage, of the births and deaths of their children, and, when necessary, the consent of their parents. The judge then endeavours to reconcile the parties. If at the end of one year and fifteen days no reconciliation has been effected a divorce is granted. 2. Adultery of husband or wife. 3. Cruel and abusive treatment of one spouse toward the other. 4. A judicial condemnation of either party to a prison sentence for an infamous crime. 5. An attempt of one party on the life of the other. 6. Intentional omission of one spouse to warn the other of an attempt by a third person on the life of the other spouse. SEPARATION.--Judicial separations are not granted by the courts of Roumania. EFFECTS OF DIVORCE.--Divorced parties are forbidden to remarry each other. A divorced woman may not marry again within ten months after her divorcement, and the guilty party in a suit for divorce on the ground of adultery may not marry his or her accomplice in adultery. Otherwise divorced parties are free to marry again. A divorced woman may not retain her husband's surname. All property rights granted by the innocent party to the guilty party are extinguished by the decree of divorce. The guilty party may be ordered to contribute to the support of the innocent party. The custody of the children is usually given to the successful suitor. The court may, however, if circumstances require, entrust the children to the guilty party or to a third person. CHAPTER XXI. SERVIA. Servia is a kingdom in the northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula. In 1882 it became a constitutional monarchy. The judiciary is vested in a High Court of Appeal, a Court of Cassation, a Commercial Court and twenty-three courts of the first instance. The Servian laws of marriage and divorce are substantially the same as those of the Orthodox Greek Church. All marital suits in which one or both parties belong to this church are governed by State law, although jurisdiction lies with the ecclesiastical courts. Matters pertaining to property settlement are, however, entirely within the jurisdiction of the civil courts, as are all marital suits in which neither party belongs to the Greek Church. When the parties to a marital suit are Roman Catholics decisions are rendered according to the canon law; and when both parties are Protestants, according to the principles of the sect to which the parties belong. In the case of a mixed marriage of others than adherents of the Greek Church the decision is rendered according to the principles of the church in which the marriage was celebrated.