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Latin meaning from bed and board. A divorce a mensa et thoro, is rather a separation of the parties by act of law, than a dissolution of the marriage. It may be granted for the causes of extreme cruelty or desertion of the wife by the husband. This kind of divorce does not affect the legitimacy of children, nor authorize a second marriage. … [Read more...] about A MENSA ET THORO

Lat. Contraction for Anno Domini, (in the year of our Lord.) … [Read more...] about A. D.

Of old; of an ancient date. Ab assnetis non fit injuria. From things to which one is accustomed (or in which there has been long acquiescence) no legal injury or wrong arises. If a person neglect to insist on his right, he is deemed to have abandoned it Amb. 645; 3 Brown, Ch. 639. … [Read more...] about AB ANTIQUO

1. The first letter of the English alphabet, used to distinguish the first page of a tolio from the second, marked b, or the first page of a book, the first foot note on a printed page, the first of a series of subdivisions, etc., from the following ones, which are marked b, c, d, e, etc. 2. The English indefinite article. This particle is not necessarily a singular term; it is … [Read more...] about A

From birth, or from infancy. Denotes that a disability, status, etc., is congenital. A non posse ad non esse sequitur ar gnmentam necessarie negative. From the impossibility of a thing to its non existence, the inference' follows necessarily in the negative. That which cannot be done is not done. Hob. 3366. Otherwise, in the affirmative. Id. … [Read more...] about A NATIVITATE