Legal Term: ABANDONMENT

Definition: malicious. The act of a hushand or wife, who leaves his or her consort wilfully, and with an intention of causing perpetual separation.

2. - Such abandonment, when it has continued the length of time required by the local statutes, is sufficient cause for a divorce. Vide 1 Hoff. R. 47, Divorce.

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