Sentences with word «jactitation»

But buried in all this heavy stuff capable of sending a law commissioner to sleep is a provision which abolishes the right to petition for jactitation of marriage.

Parents» positive presumption, first jactitation, now exequatur, joint tenant beware, & where the multies are going

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]

A jactitation petitioner was able to seek a decree of perpetual silence against a respondent who had boasted of a marriage which he falsely alleged had taken place between himself and the petitioner.