Sentence examples for deed of separation from inspiring English sources

Vivien never accepted that Eliot had left her, but he did just that when he took a professorship at Harvard for the year 1932-33, asked his lawyers to send her a Deed of Separation while he was in America and refused to have anything to do with her after his return.

On June 8 , 1858 four days after Catherine Dickens signed a deed of separation, Edward Bulwer was speaking before his constituents in Hertford when his estranged and often outrageous wife showed up and heckled him, shouting, "Sir Liar!" Bulwer had married Rosina Wheeler, the daughter of a women's-rights advocate, in 1827, but he beat her, and kept a series of mistresses.

An alternative was to obtain a "private separation", an agreement negotiated between both spouses, embodied in a deed of separation drawn up by a conveyancer.

6. Six degrees of separation.

Forget six degrees of separation.

Each handshake reinforces the imminence of separation".

"There isn't a wall of separation.

"There was a loss of separation.

The sense of separation is tangible.

The thought of separation appalled her.

It's one degree of separation.