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Definition of Judicial separation
1. Noun. A judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart.
Generic synonyms: Decree, Edict, Fiat, Order, Rescript
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Judicial Separation
Literary usage of Judicial separation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Tindal King, W. O. Goldschmidt, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1901)
"Dealing with Wife's Reversionary interest after judicial separation. ... by virtue
of the decree for judicial separation in the pleadings mentioned, ..."
2. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1905)
"DECREE OF judicial separation AND ITS EFFECTS. PAGE When a decree of judicial
separation may be granted . May be ordered in cases of PAGE 6. ..."
3. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"After judicial separation wife to be deemed a feme sole as to property, and for
purposes of contract, and of suing and being sued; to the bankruptcy laws as ..."
4. A Handbook of the Law of Scotland by James Lorimer (1885)
"... of the most sacred duties arising from the married state ; and, as a general
rule, it may be stated that the only case in which a judicial separation ..."
5. A Handy Book on Property Law: In a Series of Letters by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden (1869)
"judicial separation is a new term introduced for the old divorce a ... Either the
husband or the wife may obtain a judicial separation on the ground of ..."
6. The Principles of German Civil Law by Ernest Joseph Schuster (1907)
"In this treatise the term 'judicial separation' is used, ... Under English law
a judicial separation may be obtained on grounds which would not entitle the ..."