Adultery at Legal Glossary What is it? Consensual sexual relations by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse. In many states, adultery is technically a crime, though people are rarely prosecuted for it.
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A form of extramarital sex between a married person and a person who is not a party to the marriage. In a fault-based divorce scheme adultery is grounds for divorce.
Adultery: Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not their married spouse.
In most countries, adultery is a legal ground for divorce (the other being, generally, cruelty).
Adultery in one of the married persons is good cause for obtaining a divorce by the innocent partner.
ADULTERIUM - In the old records this word does not signify the offence of adultery, but the fine imposed for its commission.
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Adultery: When one spouse has sexual intercourse with a third party. This is considered grounds for divorce in some states.
Adversarial Divorce: A divorce where each spouse is unable to come to any agreement.
adultery
Consensual sexual relations by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse. In many states, adultery is technically a crime, though people are rarely prosecuted for it.
a. adultery - by the respondent and the petitioner finds it intolerable to live with the respondent
b. behaviour - the respondent has behaved in such as way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ...
Adultery. By statutory provision in Pennsylvania, when a person is convicted of adultery with another person, or is divorced from her husband, or his wife, he or she cannot afterwards marry the partner of his or her guilt.
For example: "The defendant committed adultery; viz., on April 15th, at approximately 10:30 pm, he had sexual intercourse with Ms Jane Doe." Vis An abbreviation of the Latin word videlicet. Short for "namely" or "that is to say.
With this, the condemnation of adultery in Gen. xx. 1-17 (contrast xii. 10-20, xxvi. 6-1 r) is in harmony, ...
The Bible mandates capital punishment for a series of crimes, among them kidnapping, Murder, Idolatry, Desecration of the Sabbath, Blasphemy, Adultery, Incest, and various other sexual offenses.
b : wrongful behavior (as adultery) by a spouse that leads to the dissolution of the marriage
c : an attorney's violation of the standards set for professional conduct
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Divorces can be obtained by showing a fault of the other spouse, such as adultery or cruelty. But a court will refuse to grant a divorce based on these grounds if there has been "condonation", which is the obvious or implied forgiveness of the fault.
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; impotence, (q. v.,) and the like adultery cruelty ...
COLLUSION: an agreement between two or more persons that one of the parties brings false charges against the other. In a divorce case, the husband and wife may agree to use adultery as a ground in order to obtain a divorce more quickly, ...
The name of a fine imposed upon those who committed adultery or fornication. Tech. Dict. h. t. ... more
LAITY.
Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity... more ...
In Massachusetts, these are: adultery, cruel and abusive treatment, utter desertion, long-term incarceration, gross and confirmed habits of intoxication, non-support, impotency, irretrievable breakdown of the marriage (no-fault) ...
See also: breach of promise date rape rape adultery
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The grounds for a legal separation are: (1) abandonment (2) adultery (3) alcoholism and/or drug addiction (4) cruel and inhuman treatment (5) personal indignities rendering life burdensome and intolerable and (6) turning a spouse out-of-doors.
Certain old civil actions for injury to the marital relation that were once available only to the husband, such as actions for criminal conversation (adultery), actions for loss of consortium (marital services) because of physical injury to the wife, ...
It is often found in legal documents to advise that what follows provides more detail about a preceding general statement. For example: "The defendant committed adultery; viz.
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