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Debt

being in force, in cash or otherwise, whether secured or unsecured, or assigned, or whether payable under a decree or order of any civil court or any arbitration award or otherwise or under a mortgage and subsisting

Divorce

years after marriage. Judicial Separation is grantable on any ground available for divorce, or for non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights or any former ground for divorce a mensa et thoro (q.v.); divorce may

Enrollment

Central Office, see R.S.C., Ord. LXI. If a party to a suit in Equity, who had obtained a decree or order, was desirous of preventing a rehearing of the cause before the judge pronouncing the same, or

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Executor

before he pays any other creditor in equal degree, and he may retain his own debt notwithstanding a decree has been made for administration of the estate and notwithstanding the assets out of which he seeks to

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 two years and upwards [(English) Judicature Act, 1925,

Restitution

'restitution' in its etymological sense means restoring to a party on the modification, variation or reversal of a decree what has been lost to him in execution of the decree or in direct consequence of the decree.

Domicile

case of a suit for judicial separation mere residence is sufficient, Armytage v. Armytage, 1898 P. 178. A decree annulling a marriage on the ground of impotence is in effect a decree for dissolution and can only

Award

Court [Re Colman and Watson, 1908 (1) KB 47]. Means to grant by formal process or by judicial decree e.g. to company awarded the contact to the low bidder e.g. the jury awarded punitive damages, Black Law

bill

bill in the na·ture of a bill of review : an equitable bill seeking to have a court decree set aside that is brought by someone who was not a party to the original suit usually before

Alimony

an increase of his means have improved. (b) Permanent alimony, which is allotted to a wife after final decree. Alimony is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Probate and Divorce Division. The Court may direct its payment

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