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A legal action that involves or affects the marital status of the parties such as annulment, separation and divorce. … [Read more...] about MATRIMONIAL ACTION

Those facts which may be proved by the production of a record. It differs from matter in deed, which consists of facts which may be proved by specialty. Vide Estoppel. … [Read more...] about MATTER OF RECORD

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...] about MATRIMONIAL CAUSES

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

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...] about MATRIMONIUM