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Ante-nuptial






Ante-nuptial

What takes place before marriage; as, an ante-nuptial agreement, which is an agreement made between a man and a woman in contemplation of marriage.

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Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.

Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Ante-nuptial
What takes place before marriage; as, an ante-nuptial agreement, which is an agreement made between a man and a woman in contemplation of marriage.

Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.



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Ante
(United Kingdom) Before.

Ante litem motam
Before suit brought, before controversy moved.

Antecedent
Something that goes before. In the construction of laws, agreements, and the like, reference is always to be made to the last antecedent; ad proximun antecedens fiat relatio.

Antedate
To put a date to an instrument of a time before the time it was written.

Antenati
Born before.

Antenuptial
An event or document which pre-dates a marriage. For example, an "antenuptial agreement" is one which is signed before marriage. A antenuptial gift is a gift given by one spouse to the other before marriage.

Antenuptial agreement
A legal contract signed by two people prior to marriage which states limitations to spouse's rights to property, support, or inheritance if the marriage ends in divorce.



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Ante litem motam
Before suit brought, before controversy moved.

Antecedent
Something that goes before. In the construction of laws, agreements, and the like, reference is always to be made to the last antecedent; ad proximun antecedens fiat relatio.

Antedate
To put a date to an instrument of a time before the time it was written.

Antenati
Born before.

Antenuptial
An event or document which pre-dates a marriage. For example, an "antenuptial agreement" is one which is signed before marriage. A antenuptial gift is a gift given by one spouse to the other before marriage.

Ante-nuptial

Antenuptial agreement
A legal contract signed by two people prior to marriage which states limitations to spouse's rights to property, support, or inheritance if the marriage ends in divorce.

Anthetarius
Obsolete. The name given to a man who endeavors to discharge himself of the crime of which he is accused, by retorting the charge on the accuser.

Antichresis
Contracts. A word used in the civil law to denote the contract by which a creditor acquires the right of reaping the fruit or other revenues of the immovables given to him in pledge, on condition of deducting, annually, their proceeds from the interest, if any is due to him, and afterwards from the principal of his debt.

Anticipation
The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time.

Anti-manifesto
The declaration of the reasons which one of the belligerents publishes, to show that the war as to him is defensive.

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