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LIMITED DIVORCE
Definition and Citations:
A divorce from bed and board : or a judicialseparation of husband and wife not dissolving tlie marriage tie.Divortium dicitur a divertendo, quia vir divertitur ab more. Co. Litt. 235. Divorce iscalled from divertendo, because a man is diverted from his wife.