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judicial separation
noun
- a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
judicial separation
noun
- See divorce, a mensa et thorofamily 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
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I read to him portions of your letter, and he is of opinion that you might get what he calls a judicial separation.
Those were the circumstances which paved the way for open war and the demand for judicial separation.
It does not avoid a marriage nor constitute per se a ground either for divorce or for judicial separation.
The only divorce decree granted is from bed and board, and amounts in effect to what is termed a judicial separation in England.
The petitioner can at any stage of the case change the petition for a divorce into a petition for a judicial separation.
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