subtraction

subtraction
The offense of withholding or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows:
(1) Subtraction of suit and services, which is a species of injury affecting a man's real property, and consists of a withdrawal of (or a neglect to perform or pay) the fealty, suit of court, rent, or services reserved by the lessor of the land.
(2) Subtraction of tithes is the withholding from the parson or vicar the tithes to which he is entitled, and this is cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts.
(3) Subtraction of conjugal rights is the withdrawing or withholding by a husband or wife of those rights and privileges which the law allows to either party.
(4) Subtraction of legacies is the withholding or detaining of legacies by an executor.
(5) Subtraction of church rates, in English law, consists in the refusal to pay the amount of rate at which any individual parishioner has been assessed for the necessary repairs of the parish church
@ subtraction of conjugal rights
The act of a husband or wife living separately from the other without a lawful cause. 3 Bl.Comm. 94.
See also subtraction
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Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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