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alimony

the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce compare child support alimony in gross : lump sum alimony

Marriage

these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will

A vinculo matrimonii

matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing

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A mensa et thoro

table and bed.) A term used to describe a partial divorce, in cases in which the marriage was just and lawful,

no-fault

: of or relating to no-fault divorce [a ground for dissolution] see also no-fault divorce at divorce

Judicial separation

1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51). See also DIVORCE. No decree shall hereafter be made for a divorce a

Accessory to adultery

Accessory to adultery, a phrase used in the law of divorce, and derived from the criminal law. It implies more than

Alimony

c. 49), s. 190, provides that on any decree for dissolution or nullity of marriage, the Court may order the husband

Co-respondent

Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a

King's proctor

cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion

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