| 单词 | family division |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamily division family division n. (a) a rift or separation within a family; the action of creating such a division; (b) the part of a court or legal system that deals with family law; esp. (in England and Wales) the division of the High Court of Justice dealing with adoption, divorce, and other family matters. ΚΠ 1660 J. Burroughs Saints Happinesse 456 The woful evils that doe proced from jars and divisions, from National-divisions, from Sea-divisions, Church-divisions, Family-divisions, Personal-divisions. 1785 Mrs. S. Boys Coalition I. xi. 123 It might arise from a domestic animosity, family division, or twenty other causes. 1889 M. Creighton Carlisle viii. 163 The differences of opinion on this important proposal created family divisions. 1948 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 34 706/2 They will hereafter don the traditional judicial robes when they sit in the ‘family division’ of their Court. 1985 L. Kendall Shamans, Housewives, & Other Restless Spirits (1987) viii. 171 Although brothers may be the actual initiators of family division, the Chinese themselves blame brothers' wives. 2007 A. Gillespie Eng. Legal Syst. iii. 80 Where children are concerned it is sometimes suggested that the Family Division adopts a more relaxed attitude to the notion of precedent. < as lemmas |
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