Mensa Et Thoro (Definition)

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9 documents for Mensa Et Thoro (Definition)

- Barber v. Barber, 62 U.S. 582, 21 How. 582 (1858)
... that the points in the case are thoroughly examined in the opinion of the court and in the di... his wife, who has been divorced from him a mensa et thoro, with an allowance of alimony by a court,... more numerous and diversified, for the definition and enforcement of the duties of their respective ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Afeta v. Gonzales, (4th Cir. 2006)
.... The definition of the statutory term "legal separation" is well r... § 7-103 (2006), and a limited divorce (a mensa et thoro), Md. Code Ann., Fam. Law § 7-102 (2006)...
- Federal Circuits
- Marriage: a basic and exigent good.
... a function of legal arrangements and definitions. The intelligibility and worth of its contours are... nurture and education its structure is thoroughly adapted are each an icon of the non-fungibility of... living together as spouses (divortium a mensa et thoro)--and wholly understandable if they (and ...
- The Monist
- Vol. 91 Nbr. 3-4, July 2008

- Zeda Simpson, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. T.D. Williamson Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant, and Jeffery Simpson, Defendant-Cross-Claimant., 414 F.3d 1203 (10th Cir. 2005)
... action lies in the common law's divorce "mensa et thoro," ? or divorce "from bed and board," ? th...We express no opinion on how a plan's definition might affect the outcome of a similar caseCf. Good...
- Federal Circuits
- The crisis of child custody: a history of the birth of family law in England.
...Thus, the court's definition of "proper custody" only secondarily considered th... should be entitled to obtain, a divorce a mensa et thoro; and the existence of cases in which it m...
- Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Vol. 11 Nbr. 2, January 2002
- Morgan v. Atty Gen USA, (3rd Cir. 2005)
... statute, however, does not contain a definition of the term "legal separation." That lacuna has le... a woman to seek a limited divorce, a mensa et thoro, from bed and board. 23 P.S. § 11. . Tha...
- Federal Circuits
- Ernest Ray Brinson and Laura Brinson Morris, Plaintiffs, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendant, Appellees, v. Clara Brinson, Also Known as Clara Landers, Third-Party Defendant, Appellant., 334 F.2d 155 (4th Cir. 1964)
..., Ernest Brinson obtained a divorce decree a mensa et thoro from the Circuit Court of Norfolk County,... of North Carolina have no precise definition of widow, nor have the courts supplied a definitio...
- Federal Circuits
- Multi-tiered marriage: ideas and influences from New York and Louisiana to the international community.
...) to increasing federalization of the definition of marriage, (19) to all manner of things in betwe...; and (3) the possibility of separation a mensa et thoro (from bed and board) on proof of adultery...
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Vol. 40 Nbr. 1, January 2007
- Natural Law, marriage, and the thought of Karol Wojtyla.
... the autonomous individual results in a definition of freedom as the absence of government constraint... only separation, that is divorce a mensa et thoro literally from table and bed - a soft for...
- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Vol. 28 Nbr. 6, August 2001