Skip to content

Adultery - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Adultery

Matched in: Term Adultery

adultery

Matched in: Term adultery

Accessory to adultery

Matched in: Term Accessory to adultery

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Offence of adultery

Matched in: Term Offence of adultery

Living in adultery

Matched in: Term Living in adultery

Criminal conversation

Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act,

Spouse-breach

Spouse-breach, adultery, as opposed to simple fornication.

Co-respondent

Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or

Desertion

the Act of 1857, see Failes v. Failes, 1906, P. 326. Desertion for two years will revive condoned adultery, Houghton v. Houghton, 1903, P. 150. Adultery by a husband after some years' separation by mutual consent is

Divorce

1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 51), amending the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, for (a) adultery, (b) desertion for three years preceding petition, (c) cruelty, (d) incurable unsoundness of mind, and, on the wife's

  • ‹ Prev
  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial