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Impotent, Impotency, a party is impotent if his or her mental or physical condition makes cons-ummation of the marriage a practical impossibility. The condition must be one, according to the statute, which existed at the time of the marriage and continued to be so until the institution of the pro-ceedings. Impotency means incapacity to consum-mate the marriage and not merely incapacity for procreation (Indian Divorce Act, s. 19). In order to entitle the appellant to obtain a decree of nullity, as prayed for by him, he will have to establish that his wife, was impotent at the time of the marriage and continued to be so until the institution of the proceedings, Digvijay Singhji v. Pratap Kumari, (1969) 2 SCC 279: AIR 1970 SC 137 (138). [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 12(1) (a)]...
Impotence
Impotence, physical inability of a man or woman to perform the act of sexual intercourse. A marriage is void if, at the time of the celebration, either of the parties to it is incurably impotent, and may be declared void by a decree in a suit of nullity of marriage. See NULLITY OF MARRIAGE. As to 'Oath of Calumny' (q.v.) in Scottish actions of divorce and nullity, see (English) Court of Session Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 69), s. 36.Impotence means a man's inability to achieve an erection and therefore to have sexual intercourse. Because an impotent husband cannot consummate a marriage, impotence has often been cited as a ground for annulment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760...
Impotency
Impotency means a person is impotent if his physical or mental condition make consummation of marriage a practical impossibility. Impotency may arise on account of physical defect or mental condition such as total repugnance to the sexual act, Digvijoy v. Pratap Kumari, AIR 1970 SC 87....
Impotence
The quality or condition of being impotent lack of strength or power animal intellectual or moral weakness feebleness inability imbecility...
Impotently
In an impotent manner...
Age
Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R. v. Phillips, 8 C& P 736, he cannot be convicted of an offence involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has a mischievous discretion, the presumption of impotence will not excuse him from aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. He may, it seems, be convict...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Enervate
To deprive of nerve force strength or courage to render feeble or impotent to make effeminate to impair the moral powers of...
Imbecile
Destitute of strength whether of body or mind feeble impotent esp mentally wea feeble minded as hospitals for the imbecile and insane...
Impotent
Not potent wanting power strength or vigor whether physical intellectual or moral deficient in capacity destitute of force weak feeble infirm...
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