MATRIMONIAL LAW • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Matrimonial law

... When he was in his little flat in Pont Street he was urged to go to his club, when he got to his club he was urged to go anywhere else, he called on the most improbable people and as soon as possible fled forth again, he even went to the British Museum and ordered out a lot of books on matrimonial law. Long before that great machine had disgorged them for him he absconded and this neglected, this widowed pile of volumes still standing to his account only came back to his mind in the middle of the night suddenly and disturbingly while he was trying to remember the exact words ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells