queen. 1. A woman who possesses, in her own right, the sovereignty and royal power in a monarchy. • Among the more famous English queens are Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth II. — Also termed queen regnant. 2. The wife of a reigning king. • She has some royal […]
inter virum et uxorem (in-t[schwa]r vI-r[schwa]m et [schwa]k-sor-[ schwa]m), adv. & adj.[Latin] Between husband and wife.
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A statute exempting a homestead from execution or judicial sale for debt, unless all owners, usu. a husband and wife, have jointly mortgaged the property or otherwise subjected it to creditors’ claims. — Also termed homestead exemption; homestead-exemption statute; homestead right. [Cases: Homestead 1, 118.]
de uxore rapta et abducta (dee [schwa]k-sor-ee rap-t[schwa] et ab-d[ schwa]k-t[schwa]), n. [Law Latin “of seizing and carrying away a man’s wife”] Hist. A writ of trespass for a man whose wife had been raped and carried away.
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property settlement. 1. A judgment in a divorce case determining the distribution of the marital property between the divorcing parties. • A property settlement includes a division of the marital debts as well as assets. — Also termed property division; division of property. [Cases: Husband and Wife 248.] 2. A contract that divides up the
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A marriage in which both parties, by their conduct, indicate their intent to no longer be married. [Cases: Husband and Wife 272(1).]
marital agreement. An agreement between spouses or two people engaged to be married concerning the division and ownership of marital property during marriage or upon dissolution by death or divorce; esp. a premarital contract or separation agreement primarily concerned with dividing marital property in the event of divorce. — Also termed marriage settlement; property settlement.
enticement, n. 1. The act or an instance of wrongfully soliciting or luring a person to do something. 2. Hist. The tort of inducing a man’s wife to leave him or to remain away from him against his will. [Cases: Seduction 1–26. C.J.S. Torts §§ 88–89.]
separation. 1. An arrangement whereby a husband and wife live apart from each other while remaining married, either by mutual consent (often in a written agreement) or by judicial decree; the act of carrying out such an arrangement. — Also termed separation from bed and board. See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE. [Cases:
de rationabili parte bonorum (dee rash-[ee]-[schwa]-nay-b[schwa]-lIpahr-tee b[schwa]-nor-[schwa]m), n. [Law Latin “of reasonable share of goods”] Hist. A writ allowing the wife and children of a dead man to recover a reasonable share of his goods from his executors after his debts were paid. • This writ was usu. founded on custom rather than the general
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