"in that behalf" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an action or purpose that is intended to help someone else. For example, "I am committed to helping my community in any way I can, and I have made several volunteer projects to serve in that behalf."
She said: "My father will no more money part withal in that behalf but £100 and 50 mark.
herein we are already ruled by th' English Dictionaries and other books written by learned men, and therefore is needeth none other direction in that behalf.
The anonymous author of The Art of English Poesy, thought to be George Puttenham, wrote in 1589 concerning the adoption of southern speech as the standard: herein we are already ruled by th' English Dictionaries and other books written by learned men, and therefore is needeth none other direction in that behalf.
Elizabeth wrote to her: How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.
The Bastille was unusual among Parisian prisons in that it acted on behalf of the king – prisoners could therefore be imprisoned secretly, for longer, and without normal judicial processes being applied, making it a useful facility for the police authorities.
Mr. Gonzales cited this principle in a letter Wednesday to the Ways and Means Committee, in which he said that on behalf of Mr. Badger, he would "respectfully decline the invitation".
Jacqueline Onassis is widely recognized as a preservation pioneer for her leadership in saving Grand Central Terminal and her involvement in the initiative for the Supreme Court ruling in its behalf that set legal precedent for landmark statutes.
WASHINGTON — Representative Maxine Waters admitted to another House member in 2008 that intervening on behalf of a bank in which her husband owned stock would probably be a conflict of interest — but she did so anyway, according to a report released Monday by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Outside of directing, she was active in a movement launched by French film directors in early 1997 that worked on behalf of "sans papier," people without documents who were being threatened with deportation by the authorities.
Then he found a major investor in the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a real-estate-oriented investment fund based in Washington that invests on behalf of union pension plans.
Mr. Sampson, 32, is legislative counsel at UWC-Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers' Compensation, a trade organization in Washington that lobbies on behalf of businesses.
