| 单词 |
a mensa et thoro |
| 释义 |
‖ a mensa et thoro Law.|eɪ ˈmɛnsɑː ɛt ˈtɔərəʊ| [L., lit. ‘from table and bed’.] In the older English law (before 1857) = judicial separation (separation 3): see divorce n.
1600[see separation 3]. 1628Coke Littleton v. §36. 32 When the husband and wife are diuorced à vinculo matrimonij, as in case of precontract, consanguinitie, affinitie, &c. and not à mensa & thoro onely as for adulterie. a1683J. Owen Sermons (1721) 572 This divorce a mensa & thoro only is no true divorce, but a mere fiction of a divorce. 1857[see separation 3]. 1957O. R. McGregor Divorce in Engl. i. 3 The ecclesiastical court would only pass sentence of divorce a mensa et thoro (a divorce from bed and board), which had the effect of a modern judicial separation. |

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