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Maintenance-effect on divorce

Maintenance-effect on divorce, if there is no specific provision to the contrary, nothing that there is in the Code of Criminal Procedure will affect any special provision in force, or in other words there being nothing to the contrary the provisions of s. 188 of the Code of Criminal Procedure will have no effect on s. 44 of Divorce Act, James Fredrick Rowland v. M/s. Raynah Rowland Nee Glover, AIR 1959 Cal 703....

Marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce

Marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce, Phrase 'marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce' in s. 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 means where the relationship of marriage has been brought to an end by intervention of Court by a decree. This decree will include a decree under s. 11, 12 or 13, Lata Kamat v. Vilas AIR 1989 SC 1477 (1481): (1989) 2 SCC 613: (1989) 2 SCR 137. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 15]...

Vinculo matrimonii, Divorce a

Vinculo matrimonii, Divorce a. See A VINCULO MATRIMONI and DIVORCE....

Mensa et thoro, Divorce a

Mensa et thoro, Divorce a. superseded by a judicial separation. See a MENSA ET THORO, and MARRIAGE....

Court for divorce and matrimonial causes

Court for divorce and matrimonial causes. See MATRIMONIAL CAUSES....

Judicial separation

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, s. 185]; also by justices, under the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895 to 1925, to the wife, on the conviction of the husband of aggravated assault, or on the ground of persistent cruelty, forcing her to live apart from him, or on the ground of his being an habitual drunkard [(English) Licensing Act, 1902,s. 5]; and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife is an habitual drunkard (ibid.). Under Maintenance Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can be enforced by imprisonment [R. v. Richardson, (1909) 2 KB 851], but her judgment creditor cannot obtain equitable execution by the appointment of a receiver of such payments, Paquine v. Snary, (1909) 1 KB 688. See also Sum...

legal separation

legal separation : a separation of spouses which does not involve a dissolution of the marriage but in which certain arrangements (as for maintenance and custody) are ordered by the court called also divorce a mensa et thoro judicial separation separation from bed and board ...

dissolution

dissolution : the act or process of ending: as a : the termination of an organized body (as a court) b : the ending of a partnership relationship caused by the withdrawal of one of the partners from the relationship c : the termination of a corporation involuntary dissolution : dissolution of a corporation by a court in response to a shareholder petition based on statutorily prescribed grounds voluntary dissolution : dissolution of a corporation upon the initiative of the directors and with approval of a certain percentage of the shareholders d : the termination of an injunction or stay by court order e : the termination of a marriage by divorce ...

annulment

annulment 1 : the act of annulling : the state of being annulled 2 : a declaration by a court that a marriage is invalid compare divorce ...

Annulment

Annulment, means the 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....

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