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Enoch Arden law
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English
Etymology
Named after Tennyson's 1864 melodrama Enoch Arden.
Noun
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.
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