Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

divorce a mensa et thoro

[Latin "(divorce) from board and bed"] A partial or qualified divorce by which the parties are separated and forbidden to live or cohabit together, without affecting the marriage itself. ( This type of divorce, abolished in England in 1857, was the forerunner of modern judicial separation. - Also termed separation a mensa et thoro; separation from bed and board "[The Ecclesiastical Courts] grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro, or rather what we should call a judicial separation, i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct .... " William Geld