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divorce
divorce partial or total dissolution of a marriage by the judgment of a court. Partial dissolution is a divorce "from bed and board," a decree of judicial separation , leaving the parties officially married while forbidding cohabitation. Total dissolution of the bonds of a valid marriage is... Read more |
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Robert Grant Aitkin
Aitken, Robert Grant (b. Jackson, California, 31 December 1864; d. Berkeley, California, 29 October 1951) astronomy. During forty years at the Lick Observatory, Aitken was an outstanding observer of double stars, and his New General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 120 Read more |
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tonnage and poundage
tonnage and poundage were customs duties which Parliament granted to Tudor monarchs for life. However, the crown's resort to impositions led the first Parliament of Charles I to refrain from making the customary lifetime grant. The king reacted by ordering the collection of the duties on an ad hoc... Read more |
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Margaret Logie
Margaret Logie (d. c.1375), queen of David II of Scotland. Daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond and widow of Sir John Logie. After the death of David II's first wife in 1362, Margaret Logie was openly recognized by the king as his ‘beloved’. The relationship seems to have been... Read more |
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National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND LAND-GRANT COLLEGES The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) is an organization of more than 200 public universities, land-grant colleges, and state university systems. Within this constituency, seventy-five... Read more |
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subsidy
subsidy financial assistance granted by a government or philanthropic foundation to a person or association for the purpose of promoting an enterprise considered beneficial to the public welfare. Subsidies were used in England in the later Middle Ages, when Parliament granted funds to the king to... Read more |
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Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill 1810-98, American politician, b. Strafford, Vt. A prosperous merchant, he helped organize (1855) the Republican party in Vermont. First elected to Congress in 1854, he served in the House of Representatives until 1867 and then in the Senate until 1898. He is best known for the... Read more |
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Battle of the Wilderness 1864
Wilderness, Battle of the (1864).The Battle of the Wilderness, fought on 5 and 6 May 1864, was the first Civil War confrontation between Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Now heading the Union war effort, Grant sought to destroy Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which numbered about... Read more |
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Continuance
CONTINUANCE The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. The entry into the trial record of the adjournment of a case for the purpose of formally... Read more |
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Comity
...another jurisdiction. Comity is granted out of respect, deference, or...Louisiana. Differences in state divorce laws have also led to denials...comity. Despite claims that a divorce proceeding was an “act or judicial...have refused to recognize divorces ... |
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Modern Instance, A
...philanderings. Marcia, though still in love with her husband, leaves him, and he sues for divorce. His action is defeated and the divorce granted to Marcia. Hubbard goes to Arizona, where he is killed by a man whose personal affairs he has... |
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Edward VIII
...marriage, to an American naval officer, had ended in divorce; she married again, to an English businessman...to make her his wife. Mr Simpson acquiesced in a divorce, which was granted nisi, at Ipswich, at the end of October 1936... |
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Marriage and Divorce
...grounds. Acquiring an absolute divorce that permitted remarriage...separation. Before 1800, most divorce petitioners were male, but...women succeeded in obtaining divorces.Southern colonies and states...conservative policies concerning divorce; in the ... |
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Women's Rights Movements
...but insisted that women be granted “immediate admission...by 1860, women's right to divorce. This last issue proved divisive...such as Stanton argued that divorce required state protection...for separation rather than divorce as a solution to unfit ... |
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Family and Children
...primary responsibility for family laws. Rules for marriage, divorce, childrearing, inheritance, and other family issues were...shifting determinations of such justifications, the Court has granted families autonomy from state regulations as protections of...to act. American families ... |
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Jackson, Andrew
...In 1791, he married Rachel Robards, believing that her divorce had been finalized. When this proved incorrect, they were...launched a broader assault against all forms of government‐granted special privileges, including corporate charters. His Farewell... |
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Mary I
...James V of Scotland. By this time the shadow of a possible divorce was falling across her: Henry had a healthy son by a...with the assistance of Thomas Cromwell, she submitted, was granted her own household again, and restored to precarious favour... |
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Indigency
...for each child born to a family, with no additional increase granted after four children. The Court refused to apply strict...Connecticut (1971), the Court invalidated a filing fee for divorce, and in Zablocki v. Redhail (1978), the Court struck down... |
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Censorship in the American Theatre
...the production of plays, although even where licenses were granted they were frequently precariously held and just as frequently revoked. Inevitably...productions that scandalized, while Daly's treatment of divorce in the play of the same name exemplified the use of subject... |
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no-fault
...industrial accidents) whereby a claimant need not legally prove negligence against any party. ∎ of or denoting a form of divorce granted without requiring one party to prove that the other is to blame for the breakdown of the marriage. |
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Edward VIII
...circles was a matter of common knowledge. Edward was determined to make her his wife. Mr Simpson acquiesced in a divorce, which was granted nisi, at Ipswich, at the end of October 1936.By then Edward had been on the throne for nine months. His... |
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Mary I
...Scotland. By this time the shadow of her father's possible divorce was falling across her.The effect of the annulment of her...with the assistance of Thomas Cromwell, she submitted, was granted her own household again, and restored to precarious favour... |
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dispensations
dispensations. Licences granted by ecclesiastical authority to do something otherwise canonically...matters relating to the ordination of clergy, vows, marriage, and divorce. The Church can suspend or abrogate only laws of its own making... |
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Divorces Granted
...Pleas granted the following divorces on Friday, May 7: Marsha...19, 2002. The following divorce was granted Tuesday, May 11: Mark A...County Court of Common Pleas granted the following divorces on Friday, May 14: Tara... |
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DIVORCES GRANTED
DIVORCES GRANTED The following divorces were granted Friday in Lancaster County Court:Christopher T. Brixius of Lancaster and Wendy B. Brixius of Christiana. They married on July 29, 2001. Jorge A. Cano of Lancaster and Cynthia H. Cano... |
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Divorces Granted, Sept. 28, 2010
Divorces granted Albert Ondeck Jr., Pottsville, from Tina M. Ondeck, Pottsville. Michael J. Murphy Sr., Pottsville, from Meghan M. McShaw... |
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Divorces granted
The Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas granted the following divorces on Friday, Dec. 31: Theresa M. Buzzelli, Lancaster, and Timothy A. Buzzelli, Lancaster. They were married July 20, 1985... |
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DIVORCES GRANTED [Corrected 10/17/03]
The following divorces were granted recently in Lancaster County Court: Danny P. Anderson, Mechanicsburg, and Jennifer L. Anderson, Leola. They married on Oct... |
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DIVORCES GRANTED [Corrected 03/19/04]
Lancaster County Courthouse granted the following divorces in January: Dwight D. Ashley, Ephrata, and Kimberly M. Ashley, New Providence. They were married on Nov. 13, 1998. Elizabeth... |
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DIVORCES GRANTED [Corrected 09/04/02]
The following divorces were granted recently in county court. Kevin W. Carroll, Lancaster, and Susan L. Carroll, Manheim. They were married on Nov. 21, 1992... |
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Marriage Licenses Divorces granted Births
...27, same address, daughter of Anthony and Bernadette Kirby. The Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas granted the following divorces on Friday, Sept. 1: Sonia M. Montanez, Lancaster, and Angel L. Montanez, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico... |
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Divorces not granted by a stroke of the pen
...Straits Times 11-21-2002 Divorces not granted by a stroke of the penByline...Islam, no religion permitted divorce. Misery was the lot of broken...There was no concept of divorce at common law. The only way...Matrimonial Causes Act made ... |
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1ST IRISH DIVORCE GRANTED.(NEWS)
...Press A court did what once was unthinkable and granted the first divorce in Ireland's history Friday, quietly embarking...country. Justice Henry Barron announced that he had granted a divorce to a man who was said to be gravely ill and unwilling... |
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