Absolute Divorce - Law Dictionary Search Results
owelty
a pecuniary sum paid by order of the court to effect an equitable partition of property (as in divorce) when such a partition in kind would be impossible, impracticable, or prejudicial to one of the parties [an
mental cruelty
conduct by one spouse that renders the other's life miserable and unendurable and that is a ground for divorce
marriage settlement
agreement 2 : a written agreement regarding matters of support, custody, property division, and visitation upon a couple's divorce called also marriage settlement agreement
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marriage
in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see also divorce 2 : the ceremony containing certain legal formalities by which a marriage relationship is created
lien
liens special lien 1 : an equitable lien enforceable to compel performance of an obligation (as under a divorce settlement) 2 : charging lien in this entry spe·cif·ic lien : a lien upon specific property as security
libellee
against whom a suit has been instituted by a libel ;esp : the respondent or defendant in a divorce proceeding 2 : a person who has been libeled
A vinculo matrimonii
A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the … canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as having been absolutely unlawful ab initio, and the parties were therefore separated pro salute animarum (for the safety of their souls),
Mahr (dower)
disability upon her as to freedom of contract. The marriage contract is easily dissoluble, and the freedom of divorce and the rule of polygamy place a power in the hands of the husband which the lawgiver intended … merely as a token of respect for its object (the woman), wherefore the mention of it is not absolutely essential to the validity of a marriage; and, for the reason, a marriage is also valid, although the
Necessaries
prudent man would have ordered himself if present; and the amount due may be recovered in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, or, if the sum does not exceed 150l., in … Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the
Court
Those provisions invest them with many of the 'trappings' of a court and deprive them of arbitrary or absolute discretion and power, J&K Iron and Steel Co. v. Iron and Steel Mazdoor Union, (1955) 2 SCR 1315: … (39 of 1987), s. 2 (1) (aaa)] It means a court constituted under this Act. [Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936), s. 2 (2)] It means the High Court or the District Court, as
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