Court of Special Appeals of Maryland March 11, 1981, 895, September Term, 1980 (Thomas v. Thomas)

Wilner, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are presented here, for the first time, with a most interesting aspect of the law of divorce and alimony, one that involves not only the interpretation of a century-old statute but the even more ancient and arcane tenets of English ecclesiastical law as they have filtered down to us through the Maryland common law.