a vinculo matrimonii meaning
[Law]
Lat. 'from the bond of marriage'. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.
Lat. 'from the bond of marriage'. A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, and the like adultery cruelty and malicious desertion for two years or more. In New York a sentence of imprisonment for life is also a ground for a divorce a vinculo. When the marriage is dissolved a vinculo, the parties may marry again but when the cause is adultery, the guilty party cannot marry his or her paramour.
Examples
- Courts in the United States currently recognize two types of divorce : absolute divorce, known as " divorce a vinculo matrimonii ", and limited divorce, known as " divorce a menso et thoro ".
- Ecclesiastical courts would grant a " divorce a vinculo matrimonii ", or " divorce from all the bonds of marriage " a ruling that the marriage had never taken place when presented evidence that the marriage had been invalid from its apparent start.
