A state law that abolishes the rights of action for monetary damages as solace for the emotional trauma occasioned by a loss of love and relationship. • The abolished rights of action include alienation of affections, breach of promise to marry, criminal conversation, and seduction of a person over the legal age of consent. Many […]
tail, n. The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner’s issue or class of issue. See FEE TAIL; ENTAIL. — Also termed (in Scots law) tailzie (tay-lee). [Cases: Descent and Distribution 29; Estates in Property 12; Wills 604. C.J.S. Estates §§ 22–27; Wills § 1258.] several tail.
adfinitas (ad-fin-i-tas), n. [Latin] Roman law. The connection between a husband or wife and relatives of his or her spouse.
conjugal (kon-j[schwa]-g[schwa]l), adj. Of or relating to the married state, often with an implied emphasis on sexual relations between spouses ( the prisoner was allowed a private bed for conjugal visits). [Cases: Husband and Wife 1–354. C.J.S. Estates § 19.]
separate-spheres doctrine. Hist. Family law. The common-law doctrine that wives were limited to control of the home — the personal or domestic sphere — and that husbands had control of the public sphere. • Under this early-19th-century doctrine, the wife was to tend to the home and family and the husband was to be the
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trigamy (trig-[schwa]-mee), n. The act of marrying a person while legally married to someone else and bigamously married to yet another. [Cases: Bigamy 1. C.J.S. Bigamy §§ 2–6, 8.] “Trigamy, literally three marriages, is often used for a special situation. ‘Trigamy,’ in the sense of the special problem of the third wife, stems from the
inter conjuges (in-t[schwa]r kahn-j[schwa]-geez), adv. & adj.[Law Latin] Between husband and wife.
consummation of marriage. Family law. The first postmarital act of sexual intercourse between a husband and wife. • Under canon law, a refusal to consummate the marriage may be grounds for an annulment or for divorce. But this is not so at common law or under modern state law.
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justae nuptiae (j[schwa]s-tee n[schwa]p-shee-ee). [Latin “legal marriage”] Roman law. A marriage between two persons who had the legal capacity to wed. • Justae nuptiae was the only union that created the familial relationship known as patria potestas. — Also termed justum matrimonium. See patria potestas under POTESTAS. Cf. CONCUBINATUS. “Iustae nuptiae is such a marriage
quoad excessum (kwoh-ad ek-ses-[schwa]m). [Latin] Hist. With regard to the excess. “Where a husband makes a postnuptial provision in favour of his wife commensurate with his circumstances and natural duty, it is not subject to revocation by him as a donation. But if the provision be immoderate, it may be revoked quoad excessum, in so