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LEGAL WIFE [10 records]

Record 1 2015-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

From the moment that adultery was committed by the wife, she lost her legal right to cohabitation, and the continuance of the husband's withdrawal from cohabitation was not desertion...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

droit juridique à la cohabitation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

... the church courts could make an order for a divorce "a mensa y thoro. "Here husband and wife were freed from their legal duty to cohabit, but they were not free to remarry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

devoir juridique de cohabitation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

A psychiatrist witness refused to answer questions put by the husband's counsel about what the wife had told him during professional consultation.... After stating that no legal privilege existed in the circumstances, the trial judge refused to order the witness to answer....(Schiff, Evidence in the Litigation Process, 1978, p. 1014).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

privilège juridique : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

At common law, husband and wife were regarded as one person, the legal existence of the wife during marriage being regarded as incorporated or merged into that of the husband. One result was that, if land were conveyed or devised to or devolved upon husband and wife during coverture in such manner that, if not married, they would have taken it as joint tenants, they took it as tenants by the entireties.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 828).

Key term(s)
  • tenant by entireties
  • tenant by the entirety

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

tenant unitaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

A legal jointure is defined as a competent livelihood of freehold to the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently after the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least, and might be made before or after marriage.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 190).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

provision en common law de l'épouse : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Dower at common law was the right of a wife on surviving her husband to an estate for her life in one-third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seised at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 175).

CONT

The legal right or interest... that a wife acquires in the property her husband held or acquired anytime during their marriage. During the husband's life, the dower is an expectant, or inchoate, interest which does not actually become a legal estate(called consummate dower) until the husband's death.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 146).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

douaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

At common law, a married woman's legal condition; "under the cover", influence and protection of her husband. In effect, the real property of which the woman was seised at the time of marriage, or afterwards, vested in both husband and wife during coverture, in right of the wife, and the husband was entitled to the profits therefrom and had sole control and management. As to personal property, at common law the husband became absolute owner of his wife's personal chattels. The disabilities of coverture in respect of property were eliminated by the English "Married Women's Property Act", 1882, and equivalent statutes in the Canadian provinces.(Yogis, 1983, p. 55).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

L'expression «feme covert», prise au sens strict, peut se rendre en français par «femme en puissance de mari». Au sens courant, il s'agit tout simplement d'un terme archaïque désignant une femme mariée.

OBS

régime de protection maritale; protection maritale : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

The state of a woman being deserted by the father of her child.

OBS

She was concerned about her position as a deserted mother but also as one without even the status of or legal position of deserted wife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Mère ayant subi l'abandon par le père de son enfant.

Spanish

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Record 9 1988-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)

Spanish

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Record 10 1988-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
OBS

Author, Jennifer Baker, Anchor Press, N.Y., 1979.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres

Spanish

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