Sentences with phrase «as jactitation»
With the passage of time, lovely old torts such as jactitation of marriage, criminal conversation, loss of consortium, enticement of a spouse, restitution of conjugal rights and breach of promise to marry have fallen by the wayside, banned by one provincial... [more]
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Wikipedia defines «jactitation of marriage» as a cause of action to prevent «maliciously boasting or giving out by one party that he or she is married to the other.»
In a rare immersion into a point of family law for something I was researching last week, I stumbled across — by accident because I wasn't researching it — the phrase «jactitation of marriage» as a potential cause of action and recall having stumbled across the phrase in the past, having looked up its meaning in the past, and (of course) subsequently forgetting what it meant every time I came across it.
In objection to this allegation, Dr. Jenner and Dr. Lushington submitted that this was an abandonment of the whole case, as it set forth his own profligacy, and that as Lord Hawke had permitted her to use his name there was no ground for the suit of jactitation.