Jactitation Of Marriage in Europe

Definition of Jactitation Of Marriage

Where a person boasts or gives out that he or she is married to someone, whereby a common reputation of their marriage may ensue ; in such a case the person aggrieved may present a petition praying a decree of perpetual silence against the jactitator. See Duchess of Kingston’s Case Janson v. Driefontein Consolidated Mines, Ltd. ([1902] A. C. 484). On the outbreak of war rights of action of those who thereby become alien enemies accrued before the outbreak are only suspended until peace is re-established. Semble, provided they involve no intercourse with the enemy.
The respondents were a corporation incorporated in the Transvaal Republic and had insured gold with the appellants. Shortly before war broke out between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic, the latter seized the gold. Held, that after the re-establishment of peace the respondents could recover from the appellants on the policy

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Definition of Jactitation Of Marriage is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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