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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR |
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CONJUGAL RIGHTS , those rights which a husband
jurisdiction which the old ecclesiastical courts exercised to enforce this right was transferred to the divorce court
procedure is by citation and petition , but, before a petition can be filed, a written demand must be made to the refusing party for cohabitation. Previous to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1884, disobedience to a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights rendered the refusing party liable to attachment
attachment
husband
decree for restitution is deemed to be desertion, and a sentence of judicial separation may be pronounced, although the period of two years prescribed by the act of 1857 may not have expired. Conjugal rights cannot be enforced by the act of either party (R. v. Jackson, 1891, I Q.B. 671), the proper procedure being to apply to the court
relief
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