- Dissolution of marriage - End of a marriage - Legally separate - A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or
other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and
called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. - The separation of a married woman from the bed and board
of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board." - The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved. - Separation; disunion of things closely united.