judicial separation

noun

, Law.

1. a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.

judicial separation

noun

1. family law a court decree requiring a man and wife to cease cohabiting but not dissolving the marriage See also a mensa et thoro Compare divorce

Example Sentences

"The law allows them the remedy of judicial separation."

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For the law relating to the prevention of cruelty to children see Children, Law Relating to; for cruelty in the sense of such conduct as entitles a husband or wife to judicial separation see Divorce.

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In modern legal language this was a judicial separation.

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There were plenty who urged upon him to commence a suit for divorce, though in reality it was extremely doubtful whether there were sufficient grounds for anything beyond a judicial separation.

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More than one Commission had reported in favour of establishing a separate court, so that the dissolution of marriage might be effected by judicial separation instead of a special Act of Parliament. 

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