In the English ecclesiastical courts there are five kinds of causes which are classed under this head. 1. Causes for a malicious jactitation. 2. Suits for nullity of marriage, on account of fraud, incest, or other bar to the marriage. 2 Hagg. Cons. Rep. 423. 3. Suits for restitution of conjugal rights. 4. Suits for divorces on account of cruelty or adultery, or causes which … [Read more...]

A matter that concerns the issue itself rather than the form that is in. … [Read more...]

Lat. In Roman law. A legal marriage, contracted in strict accordance with the forms of the older Roman law, i.e., either with the farreum, the co emptio, or by usus. This was allowed only to Roman citizens and to those neighboring peoples to whom the right of connubvum had been conceded. The effect of such a marriage was to bring the wife into the manus, or marital power, of … [Read more...]

At completion, see maturity. The point when a policy … [Read more...]

Marriage, (q. v.,) In the sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony. … [Read more...]