legislative divorce

legislative divorce
A divorce granted, without judicial inquiry, by an act of the legislature directed particularly to a specific union of husband and wife and declaring it to be dissolved. Starr v Pease, 8 Coon 540, 541.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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