prenuptial agreement. An agreement made before marriage usu. to resolve issues of support and property division if the marriage ends in divorce or by the death of a spouse. — Also termed antenuptial agreement; antenuptial contract; premarital agreement; premarital contract; marriage settlement. — Sometimes shortened to prenup. Cf. POSTNUPTIAL AGREEMENT ; COHABITATION AGREEMENT . [Cases: […]
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separate examination. 1. The private interrogation of a witness, apart from the other witnesses in the same case. 2. The interrogation of a wife outside the presence of her husband by a court clerk or notary for the purpose of acknowledging a deed or other instrument. • This was done to ensure that the wife
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Rare. A fee tail created when land is given to a man and wife and the heirs of their bodies. See FRANKMARRIAGE.
husband n. (1)丈夫 １已婚的男子；２有与之共同生活的合法妻子的男人；３妻子〔wife〕的对应词。从词源学上讲，该词意指「房契」〔house bond〕。根据撒克逊的观念和习俗，丈夫是指为整个家庭负法律责任的男人。 (2)农民；管理人 v.耕作；耕地；务农；保存；保留 如荒野中食物的贮备。 (→husbandry; ship’s husband)
A spouse’s society, affection, and companionship given to the other spouse. [Cases: Husband and Wife 209(3, 4).]
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A life tenant who receives the estate from his deceased wife by whom he has had legitimate children. • The children hold the remainder interest. See CURTESY.
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The relationship of a spouse to the other spouse’s blood relatives. • An example is a wife and her husband’s brother.
Defense of Marriage Act. A federal statute that (1) provides that no state can be required to recognize or give effect to same-sex marriages, (2) defines the term “marriage” for purposes of federal law as the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife, and (3) defines “spouse” for purposes of federal
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Enoch Arden law (ee-n[schwa]k ahrd-[schwa]n). A statute that grants a divorce or an exemption from liability so that a person can remarry when his or her spouse has been absent without explanation for a specified number of years (usu. five or seven). • This type of law is named after a Tennyson poem, in which
detinue (det-i-nyoo or -noo). A common-law action to recover personal property wrongfully taken by another. Cf. REPLEVIN; TROVER. [Cases: Detinue 1. C.J.S. Detinue § 1.] “A claim in detinue lies at the suit of a person who has an immediate right to the possession of the goods against a person who is in actual possession