Section 52: Competence of husband and wife to give evidence as to cruelty or desertion.

On any petition presented, by a husband or a wife, praying that his or her marriage may be dissolved by reason of his wife or her husband, as the case may be, having been guilty of adultery, cruelty or desertion, the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and compellable to give evidence of or relating to such cruelty or desertion.