Divorce

The legal separation of man and wife, effected, for cause, by the judgment of a court, and either totally dissolving the marriage relation, or suspending its effects so far as concerns the cohabitation of the parties. The dissolution is termed “divorce from the bond of matrimony,” or, in the Latin form of tho expression,“ vinewlo mairimonil; ” the suspension, “divorce from bed and board, ”“:mense et there.” The former divorce puts an end to the marriage; the latter leaves it in full force. 2 Bisb. Mar. & both to decrees of nullity and decrees of dissolution of marriage, while in America it is used only in eases of divorce a mensea or a vinculo, a decree of nullity of marriage being granted for the causes for which a divorce a vineulo was formerly ob tainable in England.