HUSBAND AND WIFE

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• husband and wife — A man and woman who are legally married to one another and are thereby given by law specific rights and duties resulting from that relationship. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. husband and wife …   Law dictionary

• HUSBAND AND WIFE — The act of marriage creates certain rights and duties between husband and wife. In performing them, both parties have to conduct themselves according to the following rules, comprising the fundamental principles for the relationship between… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• husband and wife — A natural and legal relation. The relation between a man and a woman created by their valid marriage to each other giving rise to the mutual rights; duties and liabilities arising out of that relation. 26 Am J1st H & W § 2. See marriage; married… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• husband-and-wife — adj. Husband and wife is used with these nouns: ↑team …   Collocations dictionary

• Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife — Directed by M.J. Ramanan Produced by [[]] Starring Jackie Shroff Tannishtha Chatterjee Rajendranath Zutshi …   Wikipedia

• pronounce someone husband and wife — pronounce someone man/husband/and wife phrase to state as an official legal fact that two people are married I now pronounce you husband and wife. Thesaurus: engagements and weddingshyponym to get, or to be marriedsynonym …   Useful english dictionary

• oneness of husband and wife — The unity of husband and wife as it prevailed at common law, the entire legal existence of the wife being completely merged or incorporated in that of the husband, and as it prevails to a limited extent even in modern times under Married Woman s… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• living together as husband and wife — Living as husband and wife, with voluntary recognition of the relationship and in the absence of design or agreement to live apart free from reciprocal marital rights and duties, irrespective of whether or not there is a common place of living.… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• live and cohabit together as husband and wife — As applied to common law marriages, means a living together, claiming to be married, in the relationship of husband and wife. Drummond v. Benson, Tex.Civ.App., 133 S.W.2d 154, 159 …   Black's law dictionary

• live and cohabit together as husband and wife — As applied to common law marriages, means a living together, claiming to be married, in the relationship of husband and wife. Drummond v. Benson, Tex.Civ.App., 133 S.W.2d 154, 159 …   Black's law dictionary

• act of living together as husband and wife — index cohabitation (married state) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary