non-accessn.
/ˌnɒnˈaksɛs/, U.S. /ˌnɑnˈæksɛs/ Law.
Impossibility of access or opportunity for sexual intercourse.
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non-access1799
1799 Sporting Mag. 13 333 A declaration of non-access within a certain time.
1857 S. Greenleaf Law Evid. I. §28. 38 (note) Non-access is not presumed from the fact that the wife lived in adultery with another.
1891 Daily News 19 Dec. 7/2 The paternity was denied by the petitioner on the ground of non-access.
1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 787/1 He held, with the majority, that a husband's evidence of non-access was not admissible on his petition for divorce in a case in which the only evidence of adultery consisted in the birth of a child.
1976 Ld. Wilberforce in All Eng. Law Rep. II. 415 The House of Lords.., holding by a majority that the husband's evidence of non-access was inadmissible.., decided that the verdict should be set aside.
1999 B. A. Garner Black's Law Dict. (ed. 7) 1072/2 Nonaccess is often used as a defense by the alleged father in paternity cases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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