judicial separation

American  

noun

Law.

1. a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.

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judicial separation British  

noun

1. family law a court decree requiring a man and wife to cease cohabiting but not dissolving the marriage See also a mensa et thoro Compare divorce

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judicial separation

He refused, however, to pronounce a decree of judicial separation, on the ground that as the parties themselves had been examined, he could not treat the husband’s answer as a counter petition.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

There were plenty who urged upon him to commence a suit for divorce, though in reality it was extremely doubtful whether there were sufficient grounds for anything beyond a judicial separation.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies

Judicial Separation.—The same causes which are sufficient for a divorce will entitle the petitioner to a judicial separation if that form of relief is preferred.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

Such desertion without due cause is, in England, ground for a judicial separation.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

"The law allows them the remedy of judicial separation."

From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman

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