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no-fault
no-fault 1 : of, relating to, or being a motor vehicle insurance plan under which someone injured in an accident is compensated usually up to a stipulated limit for esp. actual losses (as for property damage,...
Residence
Residence, is a concept that may also be transitory. Even when qualified by the word 'ordinarily' the word 'resident' would not result in construction having the effect of a particular place for dwelling always or on...
Accessory to adultery
Accessory to adultery, a phrase used in the law of divorce, and derived from the criminal law. It implies more than connivance, which is merely knowledge with consent. A conniver abstains from interference, an accessory directly...
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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 in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner or...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could...
Satisfied on the evidence
Satisfied on the evidence, these words 'satisfied on evidence' in s. 14 of the Divorce Act 1869, imply that it is the duty of Court to pronounce a decree when it is satisfied that the case...
Royal Courts of Justice
Royal Courts of Justice, the statutory name, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 222, replacing s. 28 of the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879, of the Law Courts, on the north side of the Strand, between...
Recrimination
Recrimination, a charge made by an accused person against the accuser. In a divorce suit, a counter charge that the complainant has been guilty of an offense constituting a ground for divorce, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th...
Nullity of marriage
Nullity of marriage, a matrimonial suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining a decree, declaring that a supposed marriage in null and void. See MARRI-AGE. The (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1873 (36 Vict. c. 31), extended...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...
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