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/lˈigəl sˌɛpərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Legal separation

noun

A judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart. Synonym: judicial separation.

(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order). Synonym: separation.

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"Legal separation" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost as fiercely as he himself was detested by both Darnley and the Earl of Lennox. During the latter half of the year 1566 nearly all the great lords of Scotland entered into a confederation or "band" against Darnley. Whether they meant merely to assist the queen to procure a legal separation from her husband with the support and approval of Parliament, or whether they intended to bring about Darnley's death by legal or illegal means ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

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... said that we transcend the bounds of our subject? If in pointing out her social degradation, we show you how the present laws outrage the sacredness of the marriage institution; if in proving to you that justice and mercy demand a legal separation from drunkards, we grasp the higher idea that a unity of soul alone constitutes and sanctifies true marriage, and that any law or public sentiment that forces two immortal, high-born souls to live together as husband and wife, unless held there by love, is false to God and humanity; ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Words linked to "Legal separation" : cessation, law, rescript, decree, order, edict, surcease, fiat, jurisprudence