Genealogy Chat

Help....my brain cell has passed away.......see below in a mo..................................RESULT: The answer was, he was sued for ''enticement of spouse'' ....I don;t think there is a word for the actual payment.......thanks for all your help! (and thank you Clive!) Happy Hunting - Merry x

In the 1940's one of my uncles had an affair with a married woman. She and her hubby divorced, my uncle being named as co-respondent. Uncle then married the lady. I know he had to pay a sum of money to the other man, basically because he ''stolen'' the other man's wife..........there is a proper name for this..........there was a law covering it which was repealed in the 1950's or 1960's ....... Aaaaggggghhhhhhhhh what's it called?? Ggggrrrrrrrrr! Can anyone tell me what I am talking about?????!!!!! Merry x

sued? compensation allimoney- or is that something else naughty boy!!

Well, he was rather nice looking, so obviously wasn't his fault LOL ....she had to have him didn't she!!!!! It wasn't any of those .........might have rhymed with alimony....I know it was a ''legal'' word (that's one I have to look up in the dictionary!) Merry

Blackmail :)

I have the word 'palimony' stuck in my head, but perhaps that's just something American involving the rich and famous...!

Merry Do you mean'Alimoney'

So did I Andrew, but that's not it either!! Palimony: Support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends and Patrimony: An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) do I think it begins with P???! Goodness knows! Merry

'Alimoney/Alimony'

Alimony is paid by one spouse (or ex-spouse) to the other.....this payment was for the man being ''wronged'' by the co-respondent. It is something that no longer exists. If only the dead brain cell in my head would shift itself, I might find the word lying underneath.......I know I do KNOW it!!! LOL Oh no....(looks out of the window) .........men in white coats..... Aaaagggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Merry

Would recompense come into it anywhere Merry?

It isn't alimony, because that is 'an allowance for support made by one spouse to the other pending or after their divorce or legal separation', so not paid by a third party. And the spelling is alimony, it doesn't have anything to do with the word 'money'! I guess what you are talking about must have been repealed by a divorce act, so maybe if we look through the divorce acts we might figure it out... Kate.

Good morning Merry, could you mean Punitive damages? Ann

Ummmmm....No, I don't think so....fumbling with google at the mo..... ('spect my uncle did some fumbling too!!! LOL) Merry

Something like personal damages?

Kate, it is also spelt 'Alimoney' Copy and pasted from google! -- ALIMONEYALIMONEY Alimoney, alimoney I work till my fingers are bloody and boney ... She calls it alimoney, alimoney Yeah, you single men may think it's funny ... www.banned-width.com/shel/works/alimoney.html - 6k - Lib:))

I think 'enticement' is part of it

Merry - pop down Canford Cliffs Road, or somewhere near there!! :-)

That's it....that's it!!!! It's maybe not the payment that has the name but the action brought against him by the ''wronged'' husband: ''Enticement of Spouse'' I can find that this was repealed in Ireland in 1981 along with ''Breach of Promise'' too.....Can't find a date for Eng but prob around the same time!! Thank you Clive!! Merry

LOl Joy...my nextdoor neighbour is a Judge! Wouldn't ask him coz he gets on my nerves!! Merry