A Vinculo Matrimonii

See "Divorce." AB. In Latin phrases. A preposition having the same significance as "A" (q. v.) "A" is used before words beginning with consonants, and "Ab" before those beginning with vowels. AB ABUSU AD USUM NON VALET consequentia. A conclusion as to the use of a thing from its abuse is invalid. Broom, Leg. Max. 17. AB ACTIS (Lat. actus, an act). A notary; one who takes down words as they are spoken; a name anciently applied to the chancellor. Du Cange, "Acta"; Spelman, voc. "Cancellarius." See "Chancellor." A reporter who took down the decisions or acta of the court as they were given.

(Lat. from the bond of matrimony.) A term deseriptive of a kind of divorce, which effects a complete dissolution of the marriage contract, See Divogce. Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia. A conclusion as to the use of a thing from its abuse is invalid. Broom, Max, 17.

Lat. From the bond of marriage. 1 Bl. Com. 440. 2 Kent's Com. 95. See Divorce. AB. Lat. From, by, of. See A. At, in. See Ah initio. 4 Used m the composition of official titles, as ab actis, (q. v.) See A.

from the bonds of marriage. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impo- VoL. 1.—2. tence, (q. v.), and the like; adultery; cruelty; and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again, but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.