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]
Not exact matches
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.