Sentences with phrase «by judicial decree»

In cases of divorce by judicial decree, reconciliation must first be attempted by the judge.

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It must recognize the Constitution as a legal text subject to legal interpretation by judges who derive their authority to render a judicial decree from the existence of the Constitution as a source of law.

One saw evidence of this, for example, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed that when religious counseling is informed even in part by secular psychology, it ceases to be religious and is entitled to no free - exercise protection.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

«Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.»

A decree that approves separation by mutual consent, or rather the judicial separation agreement, or the assisted negotiation agreement, authorised by the public ministry, or alternatively the signing of the agreement before the Mayor in order for the separation to be valid, are all sufficient.

Judicial separation is often, but not invariably, a first step towards divorce, and s. 4 (1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 states expressly that a court shall not be precluded from granting a decree of divorce by reason only that a decree of judicial separation has previously been granted on substantially the samJudicial separation is often, but not invariably, a first step towards divorce, and s. 4 (1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 states expressly that a court shall not be precluded from granting a decree of divorce by reason only that a decree of judicial separation has previously been granted on substantially the samjudicial separation has previously been granted on substantially the same facts.

When a couple can not agree the terms by which they will live separately, an application to the courts for a decree of judicial separation can be made by either party.