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severability clause
severability clause : a clause (as in a contract) which states that provisions are severable ;esp : a clause in a statute that makes the statute's parts or provisions severable so that one part can be invalidated without invalidating the whole called also separability clause ...
Divorce
Divorce [fr. divortium, Lat.], the dissolution of the marriage contract, grantable (after 31st December, 1937) to either a husband or wife under the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 51), amending the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, for (a) adultery, (b) desertion for three years preceding petition, (c) cruelty, (d) incurable unsoundness of mind, and, on the wife's petition, for unnatural offences, subject to the statutory provisions. Petitions may not be presented for three years after marriage.Judicial Separation is grantable on any ground available for divorce, or for non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights or any former ground for divorce a mensa et thoro (q.v.); divorce may be obtained on proof of facts which have founded a judicial separation or an order under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, which order may be made for adultery as well as other grounds. See JUDICIAL SEPARATION.Additional grounds for a decree of nullity of marri...
separation of church and state
separation of church and state :the separation of religion and government mandated under the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the U.S. Constitution that forbids governmental establishment or preference of a religion and that preserves religious freedom from governmental intrusion ...
standard mortgage clause
standard mortgage clause : a mortgage clause that is usually considered to form a separate contract between the insurer and mortgagee under which the mortgagee can collect payment even if the policy is void or voidable with regard to the insured (as because of fraud or nonpayment) called also union mortgage clause ...
Entrenched clause
Entrenched clause, is a section in the Constitution of some of the Commonwealth countries which can only be repealed or altered by special process and which deals with matters like the liberties of the subject, fundamental institutions of government etc., a number of the newer Commonwealth countries have included entrenched clauses in their Constitutions. The process of amending entrenched clauses varies with each Constitution and may involve a popular referendum, a fixed Parliamentary majority of two-thirds or more a system of delayed legislation or a combination of two or more such factors, Office of Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 250.Any amendment of the Constitution necessitated by a legislation by Parliament to: (a) admit or establish a new State; (b) form a new State by separation of territories from any State or by uniting two or more States etc., and (c) abolish or create the legislative Council of State, is not deemed to be an amendm...
Scilicet
Scilicet [Lat., abbrev. Scil. Or sc., i.e., scire licet] (that is to say, to wit).This is not a direct and separate clause, nor a direct and entire clause, in a conveyance, but intermedia; neither is it a substantive clause of itself, but it is rather to usher in the sentence of another, and to particularize that which was too general before, or distribute that which was too gross, or explain that which was doubtful; and it must neither increase nor diminish the premises nor habendum, for it gives nothing of itself; but it may make a restriction where the precedent words are not so very express but that they may be restrained, Hob. 171....
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act (Scotland)
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act (Scotland) (English) (8 & 9 Vict. C. 19, amended by23 & 24 Vict. c. 106), differs in form only from the above, most of the sections being word for word the same. A separate Act was necessitated by reason of the difference in the Scots law and procedure....
Clause
Clause, means a clause the article in which the ex-pression occurs. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(5)]A distinct section or provision of a legal documentor instrument, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 243.Clauses, means a series of numbered parts into which a Bill is divided; a descriptive title is printed in the margin of each clause, Parliamentary Practice; Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 463The main clauses of a bill in the Indian Parliament are: (i) Extent clause, (ii) Commencement clause, (iii) Definition clause, (iv) Rule making clause etc., Practice and Procedure by Parliament, M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 537....
divorce
divorce [Middle French, from Latin divortium, from divortere divertere to leave one's marriage partner, from di- away, apart + vertere to turn] : the dissolution of a valid marriage granted esp. on specified statutory grounds (as adultery) arising after the marriage compare annulment NOTE: The most common grounds for divorce are absence from the marital home, drug or alcohol addiction, adultery, cruelty, conviction of a crime, desertion, insanity, and nonsupport. absolute divorce : a divorce that completely and permanently dissolves the marital relationship and terminates marital rights (as property rights) and obligations (as fidelity) divorce a men·sa et tho·ro [-ā-men-sə-et-thȯr-ō, -Ä -men-sÄ -et-thō-rō] : a separation governed by a court order : legal separation divorce a vin·cu·lo mat·ri·mo·nii [-ā-vi-ky-lō-ma-trə-mō-nē-ī, -Ä -vi-kü-lō-mÄ -trē...
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