Matrimony
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The nuptial state.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Marriage; the nuptial state. See Maebiaoe. MATRaNS, JURY OF. See Jubt of Women.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Marriage, (g.0.,) inthe sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Marriage (9. w.). In the sense of the relation or status, not of the ceremony. Matrimonial causes, is a term used in England more than in the United States to designate that class of suits which involve rights pertaining to marriage, other than claims to divorce. Matrimonial causes are a branch of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and are either; Suits of jactitation of marriage. These are brought when one of the parties boasts or gives out that he or she is married to the other, whereby a common reputation of their marriage may ensue. The party injured may petition the divorce court, which will enjoin a perpetual silence on that head. Suits for restitution of conjugal rights. These are brought when a husband or wife The court will compel them to come together again. Suits for judicial separation and dissolution. These have superseded the divorces a mensa et thoro and a vinculo mc Urimonii. Whartim,