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Disaggregation

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts

Dirempt

Divided separated

Different

Distinct separate not the same other

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Married women's property

the doctrines and practice of equity in allowing property to be given to a married woman 'for her separate use,' i.e., to the exclusion of her husband, and in recognizing and giving effect to settlements made on

Desertion

for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two

Common stock or common hotchpot

stock or common hotchpot, the doctrine of throwing into common stock inevitably postulates that the owner of a separate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend his separate

Husband and wife

wife's torts committed during covertures, and the aggrieved party was not limited in his remedy to the wife's separate estate, Earle v. Kingscote, (1900) 1 Ch 203, but the husband's liability ceased if, while the action was

Adultery

private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery

Matrimonial causes

20 & 21 Vict. c. 85. 'Matrimonial cause' now means any action for divorce, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, jactitation of marriage or restitution of conjugal rights. (Judicature Act,1925, s. 225) See CONJUGAL RIGHTS; DIVORCE; NULLITY; ADULTERY;

A mensa et thoro

for them to live together. This divorce was effected by sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court. It caused the separation of the husband and wife, but did not dissolve the marriage, so that neither of them could marry

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