Talk:Jactitation

Clearer Wording
I personally find the legal section of this article incomprehensible. If someone could rewrite it more clearly it would be a big help to this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yipely (talk • contribs) 19:11, August 28, 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree -- it reads like an archaic legal textbook. I myself cannot understand from this article WHY someone might make such a malicious boasting, nor what the bad consequences are that might lead someone to bring this to court. The following phrases are particularly opaque:
 * * to prevent the common repudiation of their marriage
 * * the procedure is by suit of jactitation of marriage
 * * prays a declaration of nullity and a decree putting the respondent to perpetual silence thereafter
 * Mooncow (talk) 13:08, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've re-written the article, and I hope it should be better now. MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:26, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Misuse of this term in "Inherit The Wind"
There is a misuse of the term by the prosecution in the trial portrayed in Inherit the Wind (1960 film). David Spector (talk) 01:32, 6 March 2013 (UTC)