a breach or dissolution of the bond of marriage. See MARRIAGE; and Law, N° clx. 23.

Divorce is of two kinds: the one, a vinculo matrimoniis, which alone is properly divorce; the other, a mensa et thoro, a separation from bed and board. The woman divorced a vinculo matrimoniis, receives all again that she brought with her; the other has a suitable separate maintenance allowed her out of her husband's effects.

The first only happens thro' some essential impediment ment, as consanguinity or affinity within the degrees forbidden, pre-contract, impotency, adultery, &c. of which impediments the canon law allows 14, comprehended in these verses:

*Error, condicio, voluntas, cognitio, crimen.* *Cultus, dispertitio, vis, ordo, ligamen, beneficia.* *Sui sui affinitas, si forte coire negabatur.* *Sui parum & duplicis delecta praesentia testis.* *Rapinare fit mulier, sed pars reddita tute.*