Search results for: “forced marriage”
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Estate
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Estate Meaning of Estate The degree, quantity, nature and extent of interest which a person has in real property is usually referred to as an estate and it varies from absolute ownership down to naked […]
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Adherence
In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell, Diet. …
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Patria Potestas
(Lat.) In civil law. The paternal power; the authority which the law vests in the father over the persons and property of his legitimate children. One of the effects of marriage is the paternal authority over the children born in wedlock. In the early period of the Roman history, the […]
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Patria Potestas
(Lat.) In civil law. The paternal power; the authority which the law vests in the father over the persons and property of his legitimate children. One of the effects of marriage is the paternal authority over the children born in wedlock. In the early period of the Roman history, the […]
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In Rem
Legal Definition and Related Resources of In rem Meaning of In rem (Lat.) A technical term used to designate proceedings or actions instituted against the thing, in contradistinction to personal actions, which are said to be in personam. […]
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Common
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Common Meaning of Common Belonging to the community at large ; of frequent or ordinary occurrence or appearance ; characteristic of the lower classes; public , general , familiar, usual and ordinary. […]
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Right
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]