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Definition of Legal 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
2. Noun. (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order).
Generic synonyms: Cessation, Surcease
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Separate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Separation
Literary usage of Legal separation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Marriage and Divorce, Giving the Law in All the States and by Frank H Keezer (1906)
"riage contract, for divorce from the bonds of matrimony, and for legal separation
or divorce a mensa seem to be in accordance with the legislation of a ..."
2. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1882)
"866-873. 3 Wilson, pp. 4-6. Austin Jur., Lect. xvii, xxvii. 1 Bish. CL, §§ 230-278.
1 B. & HLCC, pp. 1-34. § 383. Of the legal separation of Torts and ..."
3. Proceedings of the National Congress on Uniform Divorce Laws: Held at by Pennsylvania, Governor (1903-1907 : Pennypacker, Thomson Gale (Firm) (1906)
"Only twenty states of the Union provide for legal separation. You, gentlemen, do
not need to be reminded thai legal separation is something entirely ..."
4. The Woman Citizen's Library: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation by Shailer Mathews (1913)
"What are the causes for divorce or legal separation? An absolute divorce will be
granted to either party, in all states, for adultery. ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"legal separation The provision of Code, § 966, that "legal separation from bed
and board may be granted for drunkenness, cruelty, and desertion," read In ..."
6. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1869)
"It is only legal separation by a decree of a court of justice, which entitles
her to live apart and this is even yet only given in cases of the extreme of ..."
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