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Conjugal rights, the right which husband and wife have to each other's society. The suit for restitution of conjugal rights is a matrimonial suit, cognizable in the Divorce court, which is brought whenever either the husband or wife is guilty of the injury of subtraction, or lives separate from the other without any sufficient reason; in which case the court will decree restitution of conjugal rights (English) (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 186), but will not enforce it by attachment, substituting however for attachment, if the wife be the petitioner, an order for periodical payments by the husband to the wife, s. 187.

Conjugal rights cannot be enforced by the act of either party, as was held by the court of Appeal in the case of a husband who had seized and detained his wife by force, in Reg. v. Jackson, (1891) 1 QB 671.

Connected person, in relation to any other person, includes any person who is or was that other person's banker, Financial Services Act, 1986, s. 105(9)(a) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 248, p. 206.