matrimonial law
71matrimony — I noun alliance, cohabitation, conjugality, connubiality, consortium, espousal, espousement, joining, marriage, marriage tie, married life, married state, married status, match, mating, matrimonium, nuptial bond, nuptial state, nuptial tie,… …
72citation — ci·ta·tion /sī tā shən/ n 1: a writ giving notice to a person to appear in court: as a: a process served upon an interested party in a probate proceeding b: a notice to a person that he or she is charged with a petty offense (as a traffic… …
73exclusion order — an order shutting out. 1. it is used sometimes to describe orders keeping named persons out of the UK. 2. in English law, the court has the power to order the exclusion of either spouse from the matrimonial home if it appears to the court that… …
74financial obligations on breakdown of marriage — in English family law, the process of distributing a couple s capital and income in a just and equitable way when their marriage ends in divorce. The court has extensive powers to make financial provision for the applicant. Under the Matrimonial… …
75domicile — do·mi·cile 1 / dä mə ˌsīl, dō / n [Latin domicilium dwelling place, home] 1: the place where an individual has a fixed and permanent home for legal purposes – called also legal residence; 2: the place where an organization (as a corporation) is… …
76divorce — di·vorce 1 n [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)… …
77desertion — de·ser·tion n: the forsaking of a person, post, or relationship: as a: permanent withdrawal from living with one s spouse without the spouse s consent and without cause or justification ◇ Desertion is a ground for divorce in many states. b:… …
78cohabitation — I (living together) noun abiding together, act of dwelling together, alliance, living together in sexual intimacy, lodging together, lodging together as husband and wife, occupying the same domicile, residing together, rooming together associated …
79conjugal — con·ju·gal / kän jə gəl/ adj: of or relating to marriage or to married persons and their relationships Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. conjugal …
80a mensa et thoro — literally from bed and board , a form of divorce by way of separation that does not, however, free the parties from the bonds of marriage. In England, before the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, a decree in these terms from the ecclesiastical courts… …
