marital rights

marital rights

n. an old-fashioned expression for the rights of a husband (not rights of a wife) to sexual relations with his wife and to control her operation of the household. (See: consortium, loss of consortium)

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She has failed to show concern and empathy to Kibor's emotional needs of love and companionship, thereby denying him marital rights,' court papers say.
Kibor seeks to divorce third wife, cites mental and physical torture
It also helped young people to know their marital rights and duties in accordance with the Shariah rulings.
Call to introduce mandatory pre-marriage training courses in Saudi Arabia
The protection of legal and marital rights of the newly converted Kalashi girls is the fundamental constitutional responsibility of the state and local administration.
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Karachi -- The protection of legal and marital rights of the newly converted Kalashi girls is the fundamental constitutional responsibility of the state and local administration.
Protection of legal, marital rights of Kalashi girls' fundamental constitutional responsibility of state: NCHR
This law has put especially Hindu women in a less compromising position as they can now demand for the fulfillment of marital rights during and after marriage.
Hope for Minorities
option to marry or if it declares that the marital rights of same-sex
Retroactive recognition of same-sex marriage for the purposes of the confidential marital communications privilege
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Some men can have many wives and it's all legal
The husbands who refuse to take responsibility for inflicting emotional and physical pain on their wives, justifying their brutalities as part of their marital rights should be treated as criminals.
Family Matters
Why is it, then, that there are Bibles in schools, tax-exempt status for churches, limited marital rights for LGBTQ Americans, and limited access to birth control for women whose employers have a moral objection to it, all while Christians are declaring themselves persecuted?
Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do
The Vietnamese Constitution, Law on Marriage and Family, and Land Law all provide for equal marital rights over property, land allotment and rent, yet by 2002 only 10-12% of the 12 million farmers who had been given land-use certificates were women.
Divorce in a context of domestic violence, Viet Nam
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Three issues with Lebanon's new domestic violence law
The reference to 'decent and proper use of marital rights' highlights the relevance and importance of marital rights on the validity of the marital immunity.
PGA v The Queen: marital rape in Australia: the role of repetition, reputation and fiction in the common law

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