After the 4th century other names or expressions come into use, such as mensa tremenda, series corporis et sanguinis Christi.
Those courts adopted as ground for divorce a mensa et thoro the main grounds allowed by Roman canon law, adultery and cruelty (Ayliffe, 22; Co.
You should have gone to the ecclesiastical court and there obtained against your wife a decree a mensa et thoro.
But an answer was afforded by any conduct which would have supported a decree of divorce a mensa et thoro.
The canon law of Rome was based on two main principles: (1) That there could be no divorce a vinculo matrimonii, but only a mensa et thoro.
A divorce a mensa et thoro could also be granted for cruelty.
This doctrine was of considerable importance even in the days when only divorces a mensa et thoro were granted, because at that time the parties were not permitted to separate by consent.
Reformatio Legum, and in this they recommended that divorces a mensa et thoro should be abolished, and in their place complete divorce allowed for the causes of adultery, desertion and cruelty.
Divorce remained within the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts, and these granted only divorces a mensa et thoro in cases where cruelty or adultery was pleaded as rendering conjugal life impossible.
When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, you had only to obtain a private Act for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
In the case of a separation a mensa et thoro alimony was allowed the wife for her support out of her husband's estate at the discretion of the ecclesiastical judges.
Separation "from bed and board" (a mensa et thoro) simply gave the parties permission no longer to live together and was allowed for adultery or some other grave offences, like intolerable cruelty or a chronic disease.
The causes of divorce a mensa et thoro remain unaltered in Rev.
Defn: Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensa conversation.
Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.
A decree of judicial separation, which is equivalent to the old form of limited divorce (a mensa et thoro) may be obtained in any of the States for the following causes: 1.
Earlier divorce a mensa et thoro was not granted on this ground unless there was real danger to the life of one of the parties; but at last it was decided that nimia saevitia would suffice, but the term is not defined: idem, loc.
On the one hand, it shows that the custom of remarriage after separation a mensa et thoro was continued to the very end of Elizabeth's reign.
Here apparently, where both persons are believers, separation a mensa et thoro is approved.
This led to confusion; and so the distinction between divorce a vinculo or quoad vinculum and a mensa et toro or quoad mensam et torum was differentiated.
Secondly, the term divortium a mensa et thoro means a judicial separation of husband and wife which does not touch the marriage tie.
Ultimately the common lawyers came to the doctrine that while the divorce a vinculo matrimonii did, the divorce a mensa et toro did not deprive the widow of dower, even though she was the guilty person.
When you had recovered substantial damages against the hawker, you would have instructed your proctor to sue in the Ecclesiastical Courts for a divorce à mensa atque thoro.
When you had obtained a divorce à mensa atque thoro, you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce à vinculo matrimonii.
In this recess stood the table of standard measures, mensa ponderaria (Fig.
The architecture of the period was Greek; Greek divinities were honored, as Apollo and Zeus Milichius; and the standard measures of the mensa ponderaria were inscribed with Greek names.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mensa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
