Enoch Arden law
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Tennyson's 1864 melodrama Enoch Arden.
Noun
editEnoch Arden law (plural Enoch Arden laws)
- A law that grants a divorce, or a legal exemption to allow remarrying, when a person's spouse has been absent without explanation for a certain period, typically seven years.
Further reading
edit- Enoch Arden law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia