Adultery - Law Dictionary Search Results
Condonation
Condonation, a pardoning or remission. In cases of adultery it is forgiveness, legally releasing the injury, by virtue of Judicature Act, 1925, s. 178, replacing the (English)
Judicial separation
Judicial separation, granted either to husband or wife on the ground of adultery, cruelty, rape, sodomy, bestiality, non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, or desertion without cause for
divorce
+ vertere to turn] : the dissolution of a valid marriage granted esp. on specified statutory grounds (as adultery) arising after the marriage compare annulment NOTE: The most common grounds for divorce are absence from the marital
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A vinculo matrimonii
yet it was frequently granted before the establishment of the 'Divorce Court' in 1857, on the ground of adultery, by private Act of Parliament. See ADULTERY: DIVORCE.
Adulterium
Adulterium, a fine imposed for the commission of adultery.
Natural child
natural offspring of a marriage, i.e., those who are born in wedlock, and never bastardized, although begotten in adultery and in fact the natural children of a stranger. See Shakespeare's King John, Act i., sc. 1. [Indian
Matrimonial causes
separation, jactitation of marriage or restitution of conjugal rights. (Judicature Act,1925, s. 225) See CONJUGAL RIGHTS; DIVORCE; NULLITY; ADULTERY; MARRIAGE; JUDICIAL SEPARATION; HUSBAND AND WIFE; and ASSIZES; and consult Browne and Latey on Divorce
Marriage settlement
has been dissolved, or a sentence of judicial separation has been pronounced, on the ground of the wife's adultery, to order such settlement, as it shall think reasonable, to the made of any property to which the
Lecherwite
Lecherwite [fr. legum, Sax., to lie with; wite, penalty], a fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of certain manors, 4 Inst. 206. See LAIRWITE.
Lairwite, or lecherwite
Lairwite, or lecherwite, a fine for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords of some manors, 4 Inst. 206.
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