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Divorce court   /dɪvˈɔrs kɔrt/   Listen
Divorce court

noun
1.
A court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts.





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"Divorce court" Quotes from Famous Books



... use of some other term for them and reserve marriage for the unions sanctioned by legal forms. Or take the union of two people, each of whom has prior matrimonial engagements. Such a union may, as the records of the divorce court show, be anything but impermanent; but it does not make for clearness to call such an union marriage. Let us take a third example—a New Hebridean girl purchased, or in Upa stolen, for the use of the young men, who, of course, reside in their club-house. If any of the bachelors ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas


Words linked to "Divorce court" :   tribunal, court, judicature


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