When either the husband or the wife has,
without reasonable excuse, withdrawn from the society of the other, either wife, or husband may
apply, by petition to the District Court 1
*** for restitution of conjugal rights, and the Court, on being
satisfied of the truth of the statements made in such petition, and that there is no legal ground why the
application should not be granted, may decree restitution of conjugal rights accordingly.
1. The words “or the High Court” omitted by Act 51 of 2001, s. 18 (w.e.f. 3-10-2001).