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Elopement

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The act of a wife who voluntarily deserts her husband to cohabit with another man.

2 Bl. Comm. 130.

To constitute an elopement, the wife must not only leave the husband, but go beyond his actual control; for lf she abandons the husband, and goes and lives in adultery in a house belonging to him, it is said not to be an elopement.

Cogswell v. Tibbetts, 3 N. H. 42.