Adultery - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fornication
man with a prostitute; the act of incontinency in single persons; if either party be married, it is adultery. During the Commonwealth, a second offence was made felony without benefit of clergy, Scobel, 121. After the Restoration
Ewbrice
Ewbrice [fr. ew, Sax., marriage, and bryce, breaking], adultery, Ibid.
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
or had deserted his wife or there had been a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery, Barrow v. Barrow, (1854) 5 De GM&G 782; Morgan v. Morgan, (1854) 2 Eq Rep 1270. The (English)
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Corporation or body politic
sued for a libel, but it cannot one in respect of an imputation of murder, or incest, or adultery, because it could not commit those crimes (Odgers on Libel). The several members of a corporation and their
Connivance
Connivance, consent, express or implied, by one spouse to the adultery of the other. If a petitioner be found guilty of connivance, the Court will not decree dissolution of
Compensatio criminum
(compensation of offences), a term used by the canonists. Where husband and wife and both been guilty of adultery, there was, according to the doctrine of the Canon Law, a compensatio criminum, i.e., the guilt of the
fidelity
the quality or state of being faithful or loyal ;esp : loyalty to one's spouse in refraining from adultery and sometimes in submitting to a spouse's reasonable sexual desires
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
spouse to leave or remain apart from the other or to claims for damages on the ground of adultery; and see LAW REFORM. --Kakumanu Pedasobhoyya v. Kakumanu Akkamma, 1959 SCR 1249 (para 15): See also Azmat Azim
A mensa et thoro
in which the marriage was just and lawful, but for some supervenient cause, such as the commission of adultery or cruelty by the husband or wife, it became improper or impossible for them to live together. This
Fornication
of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery
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