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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/
Adjective
a mensa et thoro (not comparable)
- (historical, law, of a divorce) That does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes the husband and wife to live apart from each other.
1864, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, A digest of New York Statutes and Reports: From the earliest period to the year 1860, 3rd edition, volume II, page 533:A divorce a mensa et thoro, obtained by the wife, is not a bar to her right of dower.
2003, B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol, Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage, page 144:The long-defunct possibility of a divorce for adultery allowing remarriage was proposed anew by Cranmer,25 who considered that a divorce a mensa et thoro offended against the duty to cohabit insisted on by the Church.
2006, Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, And Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, page 23:Under specific circumstances, two other kinds of marriage termination, both called divorce (divorcium), could be declared by the ecclesiastical courts of late medieval England: divorce a mensa et thoro ( “from table and bed”) and divorce a vinculo (“from the bond”). […] Divorce a mensa et thoro resulted in what we would term separation.
Adverb
a mensa et thoro (not comparable)
- (historical, law, of a divorce) Such as not to dissolve the marriage bond, but merely to authorize the husband and wife to live apart from each other.
1867, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, “Divorce a mensa et thoro”, in A Law Dictionary and Glossary, page 504:By the recent statute 20 & 21 Viet c. 85, § 7, no divorce can in future be granted à mensa et thoro, but a decree of judicial separation is to be pronounced, having the like effect.
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