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separation agreement
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Divorce
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 … 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
separation
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Separate estate
Separate estate. The Common Law did not allow a married woman to posses any property independently of her husband, … property, as a feme sole, or unmarried woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the husband, or from any other person. the (English) Married
Mahr (dower)
disability upon her as to freedom of contract. The marriage contract is easily dissoluble, and the freedom of divorce and the rule of polygamy place a power in the hands of the husband which the lawgiver intended … is 'not the exchange or consideration given by the man to the woman, but an effect of the contract imposed by law on the husband as a token of respect for its subject: the Woman'. Giving a
Separation
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Marriage settlement
the Divorce Court is empowered, in cases where a marriage has been dissolved, or a sentence of judicial separation has been pronounced, on the ground of the wife's adultery, to order such settlement, as it shall think … Dixon on Divorce. In Scotland, the legal rights of spouses and children may be defeated by an ante-nuptial contract of marriage but not by a post-nuptial contract.
Purchase price
before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged. [The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(20)] Means the amount of valuable consideration paid or … is separately charged and includes-- (a) in relation to: (i) the transfer, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract, of property in any goods, (ii) the supply of goods by any unincorporated association or body of persons
contract
contract in this entry installment contract : a contract in which performance is tendered in installments (as by separate periodic delivery of goods) investment contract : an agreement or transaction in which a party invests money in
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 … case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the
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