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a person who was formerly a spouse...
innocent spouse
innocent spouse : a spouse who may be relieved of liability for taxes on an amount of income that the other spouse failed to include on a joint return filed with the Internal Revenue Service NOTE: In order to be relieved of tax liability, the innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse omitted the amount of income, that he or she did not know and had no reason to know that the income had been omitted, and that it is unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable. ...
Innocent spouse
Innocent spouse, means a spouse who may be relived of liability for taxes on income that the other spouse did not include on a joint tax return. The innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse did not know and had no reason to know of the omission, and that it would be unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 793....
Spouse
Spouse, the word 'spouse' has been understood to connote a husband or a wife which term itself postulates a subsisting marriage. The word 'spouse' in sub-s. (1) of s. 5 cannot be interpreted to mean a former spouse because even after the divorce when a second marriage is contracted if the former spouse is living that would not prohibit the parties from contracting the marriage within the meaning of clause (i), sub-s. (1) of s. 5 by its very context would not include within its meaning the expression 'former spouse', Lila Gupta v. Laxmi Narain, AIR 1978 SC 1351 (1356): (1978) 3 SCC 258: (1978) 3 SCR 922. See also AIR 1971 Cal 307 (309).One's husband or wife by lawful marriage; a married person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1410...
Ex
A prefix from the latin preposition ex akin to Gr ex or ek signifying out of out proceeding from Hence in composition it signifies out of as in exhale exclude off from or out as in exscind beyond as in excess exceed excel and sometimes has a privative sense of without as in exalbuminous exsanguinous In some words it intensifies the meaning in others it has little affect on the signification It becomes ef before f as in effuse The form e occurs instead of ex before b d g l m n r and v as in ebullient emanate enormous etc In words from the French it often appears as es sometimes as s or eacute as escape scape eacutelite Ex prefixed to names implying office station condition denotes that the person formerly held the office or is out of the office or condition now as ex president ex governor ex mayor ex convict The Greek form ex becomes ex in English as in exarch ek becomes ec as in eccentric...
spouse
spouse Legally married husband or wife. A co-habiting partner does not qualify as a spouse for immigration purposes. A common-law husband or wife may or may not qualify as a spouse for immigration purposes, depending on the laws of the country where the relationship occurs. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
ex post facto
ex post facto [Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward] : after the fact : retroactively [cannot judge ex post facto] adj 1 : done, made, or formulated after the fact : retroactive 2 : of or relating to an ex post facto law [the chief concerns of the ex post facto ban "L. H. Tribe"] ...
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio.-(No right of action arises from a base cause.) See Ex DOLO MALO, etc. There are also maxims, Ex maleficio non oritur contractus and Ex facto illicito non oritur actio, to the same effect....
ex contractu
ex contractu [Latin] : arising from or based on a contract [damages ex contractu] compare ex delicto ...
ex delicto
ex delicto [Latin, of or by reason of a wrong] : arising from or based on a tort or delict (as a breach of duty) [the action is ex delicto] compare ex contractu ...
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