Court For Divorce And Matrimonial Causes in United States

Court For Divorce And Matrimonial Causes Definition

In English law. A court which has the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the ecclesiastical courts in respect of divorces a mensa et thoro, suits of nullity of marriage, suits of jactitation of marriage, suits for restitution of conjugal rights, and all suits, causes, and matters matrimonial. It consists of the lord chancellor and the justices of the queen’s bench, the common pleas, the exchequer, and the judge of the court of probate, who is entitled “Judge ordinary.” The judge ordinary exercises all the powers of the court, except petitions for dissolving or annulling marriages, and applications for new trials of matters of fact, bills of exception, special verdict and special cases, for hearing which excepted cases he must be joined by two of the other judges. Provision is made for his absence by authorizing the lord chancellor to appoint one of certain judicial persons to act in such absence. Juries may be summoned to try matters of fact, and such trials are conducted in the same manner as jury trials at common law. See St. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85; St. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 108; St. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 61.

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In English law. A court which has the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the ecclesiastical courts in respect of divorces a mensa et thoro, suits of nullity of marriage, suits of jactitation of marriage, suits for restitution of conjugal rights, and all suits, causes, and matters matrimonial. It consists of the lord chancellor and the justices of the queen’s bench, the common pleas, the exchequer, and the judge of the court of probate, who is entitled “Judge ordinary.” The judge ordinary exercises all the powers of the court, except petitions for dissolving or annulling marriages, and applications for new trials of matters of fact, bills of exception, special verdict and special cases, for hearing which excepted cases he must be joined by two of the other judges. Provision is made for his absence by authorizing the lord chancellor to appoint one of certain judicial persons to act in such absence. Juries may be summoned to try matters of fact, and such trials are conducted in the same manner as jury trials at common law. See St. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85; St. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 108; St. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 61.

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