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Limited divorce

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A divorce from bed and board ; or a judicial separation of husband and wife not dissolving the marriage tie. Divortium dicitur a divertendo, qula vir divertitur ab uxore.

Co.. Litt. 235.

Divorce is calied from divertendo, because a man is diverted from hls wlfe.