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Definition of Divorce court
1. Noun. A court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divorce Court
Literary usage of Divorce court
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the other provinces of Canada no divorce court has ever been constituted and
divorces are granted only by special Act of Federal Parliament. ..."
2. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"The divorce court, it seems, has no jurisdiction, under the 35th section of the
... With regard to the decisions of the divorce court as to the custody of ..."
3. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1905)
"In the divorce court under 20 & 21 Viet. c. 85, «. ... The Matrimonial Causes
Acts empower the divorce court, In the Divorce when granting a decree for ..."
4. Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate and in the Court for by Great Britain Court of Probate, Maurice Charles Merttins Swabey, Court of Probate, Thomas Hutchinson Tristram, Great Britain, Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1865)
"The petitioner under- " taking not to institute other proceedings in the Divorce "
Court; each party to pay his own costs of this suit. ..."
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