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Annulment
act of nullifying or making void. A judicial or ecclesiastical declaration that a marriage is void. Unlike a divorce, an annulment establishes that marital status never existed in law, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 89.
Desertion
Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ib)] Desertion, implies an abandonment against the wish of the person charging it. [(English) Divorce Act, 1869, s. 3(a)] Desertion is the separation of one spouse from the other, with an intention on the
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Judicial separation
divorce a mensa et toro under the existing law, and such other legal effect as hereinafter mentioned (Indian Divorce Act, 1869, (4 of 1869), s. 22 chapter V). A separation of husband and wife under orders of court
Marriage
Means a marriage between Parsis whether contracted before or after the commencement of this Act. [Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936), s. 2(6)]
Adultery
which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa
Marriage settlement
1925, s. 27, make a binding settlement on marriage. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 19(1), the Divorce Court is empowered, in cases where a marriage has been dissolved, or a sentence of judicial separation has
Iddat period
of her child or the termination of her pregnancy, whichever is earlier. [Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 (25 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]
Residence
marked with a considerable measure of continuance, Paster J.S. Singh v. Jyotsana Singh, AIR 1982 MP 122 [See Divorce Act, 1869, s. 3(3)] Residence, is generally understood as referring to a person in connection with the place where
A vinculo matrimonii
A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the … were illegitimate, and the parties could contract another marriage. This maxim directs the construction to be put upon Acts of Parliament, against the express letter of which the Courts will not sanction any interpretation, for the meaning
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