Legal Term: ELOPEMENT

Definition: This term is used to denote the departure of a married woman from her hushand, and dwelling with an adulterer. 2. While the wife reides with her hushand, and cohabits with him, however exceptionable her conduct may be, yet he is bound to provide her with necessaries, and to pay for them, but when she elopes, the hushand is no longer liable for her alimony, and is not bound to pay debts of her contracting when the separation is notorious, and whoever gives her credit under these circumstances, does so at his peril. Chit. Contr. 49, 4 Esp. R. 42, 3 Pick. R. 289, 1 Str. R. 647, 706, 6 T. R. 603, 11 John. R. 281, 12 John. R. 293, Bull. N. P. 135, Stark. Ev. part 4, p. 699.

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