a vinculo matrimonii

American  

[ey ving-kyuh-loh ma-tri-moh-nee-ahy, -nee-ee] / eɪ ˈvɪŋ kyəˌloʊ ˌmæ trɪˈmoʊ niˌaɪ, -niˌi /

adjective

Law.

1. pertaining to or noting a divorce that absolutely dissolves the marriage bond and releases the spouses from all matrimonial obligations.

   a divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

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Etymology

Origin of a vinculo matrimonii

< Latin: from the bond of marriage

Example Sentences

When you had obtained a divorce a mensâ et thoro, you had only to obtain a private Act for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. 

From Project Gutenberg

A divorce a vinculo matrimonii, for any cause arising subsequent to marriage, could formerly be obtained in England only by an Act of Parliament, and the ecclesiastical courts must have previously pronounced a divorce a mens� et thoro.

From Project Gutenberg

It includes both the complete abrogation of the marriage relation known as a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, which carries with it a power on the part of both parties to the marriage to remarry other persons or each other, and also that incomplete severance not involving powers to remarry, which was formerly known as divorce a mensa et thoro, and has in England been termed “judicial separation.”

From Project Gutenberg

In this negation of a right to divorce a vinculo matrimonii lies the broad difference between the doctrines of the Eastern and Western Churches of Christendom.

From Project Gutenberg

At the present day it has become, with regard to divorce a vinculo matrimonii, a rule of greater and of more far-reaching importance.

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