Marital - Law Dictionary Search Results
Wife
income; otherwise the income will not be the income of the wife, for the word 'wife' predicates a marital relationship, P.J. Plaskat Thomas v. C.I.T, AIR 1964 SC 587 (591). [Income Tax Act (11 of 1922), s.
Marriage
Society of Comparative Legislation, August, 1900, and December, 1901. See also HUSBAND AND WIFE; MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY; DOMICILE; MARITAL RIGHTS; NECESSARIES; ROYAL MARRIAGES ACT; WILL. It includes remarriage, Mainia v. Dy. Director of Consolidation, AIR 1989 SC
Living separately
live as husband and wife. What seems to be necessary is that they have no desire to perform marital obligations and with that mental attitude they have been living separately for a period of one year immediately
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Legitimate
Legitimate, access and non-access connote existence and non-existence of opportunities for marital intercourse, Chilukuri Venkateswarlu v. Chilukuri Venkatanarayana, AIR 1954 SC 176 (177): 1954 SCR 424.
Illicit intercourse
Illicit intercourse, 'illicit intercourse' means sexual intercourse between persons not united by marriage, or by any union or tie which, though not amounting to a marriage, is recognized by the personal law or custom of the...
Husband
living, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 746. Husband, the expression husband cover a person who enters into marital relationship and under the colour of such proclaimed or feigned status of husband subjects the woman concerned to
Desertion
after some years' separation by mutual consent is not evidence of desertion, and a wife without cause refusing marital intercourse cannot allege 'desertion' by the husband 'without reasonable excuse' if in consequence he refuses to live with
Conjugal
Earl Jowitt defines 'conjugal rights' thus: The right which husband and wife have to each other's society and marital intercourse, Saroj Rani v. Sudarshan Kumar Chadha, (1984) 4 SCC 90: AIR 1984 SC 1562 (1568). [Hindu Marriage
Co-emptio
in which the husband 'purchased' from a women's father -- by fictitious sale -- the right to exercise marital power over the women, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Annulment
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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