Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
a mensa et thoro
[latin "from board and hearth"] (of a divorce decree) effecting a separation of the parties rather than a dissolution of the marriage <a separation a mensa et thoro was the usual way for a couple to separate under english law up until 1857>. see divorce a menso et thoro under divorce; separation; a vinulo matrimonii.
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
mensa et thoro
[Latin] From bed and board. See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE.
separation a mensa et thoro
See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE.