M v M - [1941] NZLR 851

Social Security — Divorce and Matrimonial Causes — Alimony — Destitute Persons — Maintenance — Order for Wife's Maintenance or for Alimony — Wife a Mental Patient — No Payments made after April 1, 1939 — Liability of Husband — "Order . . . in respect of the maintenance of any person in any public institution" — Whether confined to Order made in favour of the Institution itself — Social Security Act, 1938, s 94 (3).