prosocerus
prosocerus (pr[schwa]-sos-[schwa]-r[schwa]s). [Latin] Civil law. A wife’s or husband’s grandmother.
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collateral affinity
The relationship of a spouse’s relatives to the other spouse’s relatives. • An example is a wife’s brother and her husband’s sister. [Cases: Marriage 10. C.J.S. Marriage § 17.]
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husband
husband. A married man; a man who has a lawful wife living. • Etymologically, the word signified the house bond, the man who, according to Saxon ideas and institutions, held around him the family, for which he was legally responsible. [Cases: Husband and Wife 1.] common-law husband. The husband in a common-law marriage; a man
dot
DOT.abbr. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. dot (dot or dawt), n. [French fr. Latin dos] Civil law. Dowry; the property that a woman brings to the marriage to help with marriage expenses. • The income is usu. controlled by the husband, while the principal remains the wife’s separate property.
uxoricide
uxoricide ([schwa]k-sor-[schwa]-sId or [schwa]g-zor-), n. 1. The murder of one’s wife. 2. A man who murders his wife. Cf. MARITICIDE. — uxoricidal, adj.
de lucranda dote
de lucranda dote (dee loo-kran-d[schwa] doh-tee). [Latin “of being enriched by the dowry”] Hist. A spousal agreement giving a husband the right to retain his wife’s dowry upon her death.
legal unities doctrine
legal-unities doctrine. Hist. The common-law rule that a wife had no separate existence from her husband. — Also termed doctrine of legal unities; unities doctrine of marriage. See MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACTS; SPOUSAL-UNITY DOCTRINE.
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separate estate
separate estate (1)单独财产 指处于婚姻关系或商事关系的多人之中某一人的个人财产，区别于彼此间的共有财产或具有共同利益的财产。 (2)已婚妇女的特有财产在英国，普通法不允许已婚妇女占有独立于其丈夫以外的任何财产，如将某项财产归其单独使用和受益，则就该财产而言，衡平法需将该已婚妇女视为未婚妇女〔feme sole〕。妻子的特有财产可通过与其丈夫订立婚前契约〔pre-nuptial〕或由丈夫或他人赠与的方式而取得。1882年《已婚妇女财产法》〔Married Women’s Property Act〕几乎完全取消了普通法在财产问题上对已婚妇女和未婚妇女的区分。1935年《(已婚妇女与侵权人)改革法》〔Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors)Act〕规定：已婚妇女有能力取得、持有和处分财产，对合同或侵权行为承担责任，受破产法的调整和法院判决及命令的执行，其范围与未婚妇女相同。1962年《(丈夫与妻子)改革法》〔Law Reform (Husband and Wife) Act〕亦有同样的修改。 (→community property; separate property; anticipation; coverture)
nonintercourse
nonintercourse. 1. The refusal of one country to deal commercially with another. • For example, the Non–Intercourse Act of 1809, a congressional act, prohibited the importation of British or French goods. 2. The lack of access, communication, or sexual relations between husband and wife. Cf. NONACCESS.