Definition of Matrimonial law

1. Noun. That branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony.

Generic synonyms: Jurisprudence, Law, Legal Philosophy
Examples of category: Property Settlement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Matrimonial Law

matrilineage
matrilineal
matrilineal kin
matrilineal sib
matrilineality
matrilineally
matrilinear
matrilines
matrilocal
matrilocality
matrilysin
matrimoieties
matrimoiety
matrimoine
matrimonial law (current term)
matrimonially
matrimonials
matrimonies
matrimonious
matrimony vine
matriotism
matriphagy
matrisib
matrist
matrists
matrix
matrix Gla protein

Literary usage of Matrimonial law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"I reserve comments on these systems till we have followed out the history of the English matrimonial law in the widest and most remarkable field of its ..."

2. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"GRADUAL AMENDMENT OF THE ENGLISH matrimonial law. However, the Courts of Equity ultimately set themselves in England to improve the wife's condition. ..."

3. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"... of matrimonial law, during the provincial period, harmonizes in the main with that prescribed by the laws of 1665 and and 1684, it is sufficient to say ..."

4. The Law Chronicle: A Monthly Journal (1858)
"Already the judge of the new court has been nominated ; and Mr. Justice Cresswell ia known to be trying his 'prentice hand in matrimonial law, preparing for ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"34, note 3, as follows: "The matrimonial law of Western Europe was long dominated by Roman ecclesiastical influences, giving rise in England to a body of ..."

6. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1867)
"... the matrimonial law. Alleged breach of the law by Arjuna. find on either side of his road a number of desolate heaps, the debris of thousands of years, ..."

7. A Treatise on Private International Law: With Principal Reference to Its by John Westlake (1890)
"The exclusion of immovables from the operation of the matrimonial law of the domicile prevailed in the middle ages, and is still maintained in England. ..."

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