espousals ([schwa]-spow-z[schwa]lz), n. Mutual promises between a man and a woman to marry one another. [Cases: Breach of Marriage Promise 4–5. C.J.S. Breach of Marriage Promise §§ 5–6.] “Espousals were of two kinds: sponsalia per verba de futuro, which take place if man and woman promise each other that they will hereafter become husband and […]
mulier (myoo-lee-[schwa]r), n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. A woman. • This term at various times referred to a marriageable virgin, a woman not a virgin, a wife, or a mistress. 2. Hist. & Scots law. A legitimate son; the son of a mulier (“lawful wife”).
ex. 1. Former (ex-wife). 2. Without (ex rights). 3. From (ex cathedra). 4. (usu. cap.) abbr. Exhibit (Ex. 4). 5.abbr. Example (this is but one ex. of several that might be cited). 6. (cap.) abbr. EXCHEQUER.
repudiate, vb. 1. To reject or renounce (a duty or obligation); esp., to indicate an intention not to perform (a contract). [Cases: Contracts 313. C.J.S. Contracts § 534.] 2. Hist. To divorce or disown (one’s wife).
extra quattuor maria (eks-tr[schwa] kwah-too-[schwa]r mar-ee-[schwa]). [Latin] Beyond the four seas; out of the kingdom of England. • The reference is to the seas surrounding Great Britain. The phrase was tradition when explaining a husband’s impossibility of access to his wife at the time of conception.
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Civil law. 1. That portion of a wife’s property over which she has complete control. 2. All of a wife’s effects that have not been settled on her as dowry; any property that a wife owns apart from her dowry. • In Louisiana, after January 1, 1980, all property acquired by the wife that is
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Civil law. Separate property that the wife brings to the marriage to assist the husband with the marriage expenses. Cf. extradotal property. [Cases: Dower and Curtesy 10. C.J.S. Dower §§ 10, 12–17, 140.]
consummate (k[schwa]n-s[schwa]m-it orkahn-s[schwa]-mit), adj. Completed; fully accomplished. • Consummate was often used at common law to describe the status of a contract or an estate, such as the trans-formation of a husband’s interest in his wife’s inheritance from that of a tenant by the curtesy initiate to a tenant by curtesy consummate upon the wife’s
jus mariti (j[schwa]s mah-ree-tIor m[schwa]-rI-tI). [Law Latin] Scots law. Hist. The outmoded right under which a husband acquired ownership of all his wife’s movable property.
praeposita negotiis vel rebus domesticis (pri-poz-[schwa]-t[schwa] ni-goh-shee-is vel ree-b[schwa]s d[schwa]-mes-ti-sis). [Latin] Hist. Set over domestic affairs. • The phrase usu. referred to a wife’s status.
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